* Deprecate auto detecting cloud providers in kubelet. Auto detecting cloud providers go against the initiative for out-of-tree cloud providers as we'll now depend on cAdvisor integrations with cloud providers instead of the core repo. In the near future, `--cloud-provider` for kubelet will either be an empty string or `external`.  ([#51312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51312), [@and...

- Fix: do not delete the lb that does not exist (#105777, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105185, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: leave the probe path empty for TCP probes (#105253, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Introduce a feature gate `DisableCloudProviders` allowing to disable cloud-provider initialization in KAPI, KCM and kubelet.

- The node annotation alpha.kubernetes.io/provided-node-ip is no longer set ONLY when `--cloud-provider=external`.  Now, it is set on kubelet startup if the `--cloud-provider` flag is set at all, including the deprecated in-tree providers. ([#109794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109794), [@mdbooth](https://github.com/mdbooth)) [SIG Network and Node]

- Kubelet, when using cloud provider external, initializes temporary the node addresses using the --node-ip flag values if set, until the cloud provider overrides it. ([#121028](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121028), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Node]

- [KCCM] drop filtering nodes for the providerID when syncing load balancers, but have changes to the field trigger a re-sync of load balancers. This should ensure that cloud providers which don't specify providerID, can still use the service controller implementation to provision load balancers. ([#117602](https://github.com/...

- The in-tree cloud provider for AWS (and the EBS storage plugin) has now been removed. Please use the external cloud provider and CSI driver from https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws instead. ([#115838](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115838), [@torredil](https://github.com/torredil)) [SIG API Machinery,...

- The in-tree cloud provider for OpenStack (and the cinder volume provider) has been removed. Please use the external cloud provider and csi driver from [cloud-provider-openstack](https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-openstack) instead. ([#67782](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67782), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

  // balancer implementation is used, today this is typically done through the cloud provider integration,
  // but should apply for any default implementation. If set, it is assumed that a load balancer
  // implementation is watching for Services with a matching class. Any default load balancer
  // implementation (e.g. cloud providers) should ignore Services that set this field.

natively within Kubernetes, without exposing an HTTP endpoint or
using an extra executable.

### Kubelet Credential Provider Graduates to Beta

Originally released as Alpha in Kubernetes 1.20, the kubelet's support for
[image credential providers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/kubelet-credential-provider/kubelet-credential-provider/)
has now graduated to Beta.