Adds support to preserve auto update labels in generate and play kube

In the case of generate kube the auto-update labels will be converted into kube annotations and for play kube they will be converted back to labels since that's what podman understands

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Vega <edvegavalerio@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/specgen/generate/kube/kube.go b/pkg/specgen/generate/kube/kube.go
index 73c1c31ba..ccce3edba 100644
--- a/pkg/specgen/generate/kube/kube.go
+++ b/pkg/specgen/generate/kube/kube.go
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ type CtrSpecGenOptions struct {
 	SecretsManager *secrets.SecretsManager
 	// LogDriver which should be used for the container
 	LogDriver string
+	// Labels define key-value pairs of metadata
+	Labels map[string]string
 }
 
 func ToSpecGen(ctx context.Context, opts *CtrSpecGenOptions) (*specgen.SpecGenerator, error) {
@@ -278,6 +280,19 @@ func ToSpecGen(ctx context.Context, opts *CtrSpecGenOptions) (*specgen.SpecGener
 		s.NetNS.NSMode = specgen.Host
 	}
 
+	// Add labels that come from kube
+	if len(s.Labels) == 0 {
+		// If there are no labels, let's use the map that comes
+		// from kube
+		s.Labels = opts.Labels
+	} else {
+		// If there are already labels in the map, append the ones
+		// obtained from kube
+		for k, v := range opts.Labels {
+			s.Labels[k] = v
+		}
+	}
+
 	return s, nil
 }