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+// Copyright 2018 The Kubernetes Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package summary
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+)
+
+var (
+	// DefaultAddressTypePriority is the default node address type
+	// priority list, as taken from the Kubernetes API server options.
+	// In general, we prefer overrides to others, internal to external,
+	// and DNS to IPs.
+	DefaultAddressTypePriority = []corev1.NodeAddressType{
+		// --override-hostname
+		corev1.NodeHostName,
+
+		// internal, preferring DNS if reported
+		corev1.NodeInternalDNS,
+		corev1.NodeInternalIP,
+
+		// external, preferring DNS if reported
+		corev1.NodeExternalDNS,
+		corev1.NodeExternalIP,
+	}
+)
+
+// NodeAddressResolver knows how to find the preferred connection
+// address for a given node.
+type NodeAddressResolver interface {
+	// NodeAddress finds the preferred address to use to connect to
+	// the given node.
+	NodeAddress(node *corev1.Node) (address string, err error)
+}
+
+// prioNodeAddrResolver finds node addresses according to a list of
+// priorities of types of addresses.
+type prioNodeAddrResolver struct {
+	addrTypePriority []corev1.NodeAddressType
+}
+
+func (r *prioNodeAddrResolver) NodeAddress(node *corev1.Node) (string, error) {
+	// adapted from k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/node
+	for _, addrType := range r.addrTypePriority {
+		for _, addr := range node.Status.Addresses {
+			if addr.Type == addrType {
+				return addr.Address, nil
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return "", fmt.Errorf("node %s had no addresses that matched types %v", node.Name, r.addrTypePriority)
+}
+
+// NewPriorityNodeAddressResolver creates a new NodeAddressResolver that resolves
+// addresses first based on a list of prioritized address types, then based on
+// address order (first to last) within a particular address type.
+func NewPriorityNodeAddressResolver(typePriority []corev1.NodeAddressType) NodeAddressResolver {
+	return &prioNodeAddrResolver{
+		addrTypePriority: typePriority,
+	}
+}