Azure/go-autorest will soon be unsupported

[mboersma]

/kind deprecation
/priority important-soon

Related to the SDK v2 transition, the Azure/go-autorest library will go out of support on March 31, 2023. CAPZ should find alternatives to those modules–see here for an example of replacing to.StringPtr() and friends.

[dtzar]

@mboersma - isn't this a duplicate of #2670 ?

[mboersma]

@dtzar they're related but not the same: Azure/azure-sdk-for-go and Azure/go-autorest. CAPZ's direct usage of go-autorest can probably be addressed as a separate task, similarly to kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure#2983.

[CecileRobertMichon]

@mboersma are you interested in working on this or should we mark it as help wanted?

[CecileRobertMichon]

/milestone v1.8

[mboersma]

/assign

I'm psyched to work on it but since it's also intertwined with our async framework it will be more work than just replacing our to.StringPtr()-type calls.

[CecileRobertMichon]

Should we maybe start with the to.*Ptr type calls since we'll have to do that regardless of SDK track 2 vs. ASO stuff? that can be its own PR. Then we can evaluate moving async services separately.