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+# Copyright 2017-present Open Networking Foundation
+#
+# 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.
+
+"""
+    pull_pods.py
+
+    Implements a syncstep to pull information about pods form Kubernetes.
+"""
+
+from synchronizers.new_base.pullstep import PullStep
+from synchronizers.new_base.modelaccessor import KubernetesServiceInstance
+
+from xosconfig import Config
+from multistructlog import create_logger
+
+from kubernetes import client as kubernetes_client, config as kubernetes_config
+
+log = create_logger(Config().get('logging'))
+
+class KubernetesServiceInstancePullStep(PullStep):
+    """
+         KubernetesServiceInstancePullStep
+
+         Pull information from Kubernetes.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(KubernetesServiceInstancePullStep, self).__init__(observed_model=KubernetesServiceInstance)
+
+        kubernetes_config.load_incluster_config()
+        self.v1 = kubernetes_client.CoreV1Api()
+
+    def pull_records(self):
+        # TODO(smbaker): implement pull step here
+        pass
+