The scheduling hints allow the scheduler to retry scheduling a Pod that was previously rejected by the CSILimit plugin if a deleted pod has a PVC from the same driver. ([#121508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121508), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]
- Kube-scheduler implements scheduling hints for the InterPodAffinity plugin.
  The scheduling hints allow the scheduler to retry scheduling a Pod

- Kubeadm: support automatic retry after failing to pull image ([#86899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86899), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* Fix a bug where kubelet would not retry pod sandbox creation when the restart policy of the pod is Never ([#79451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79451), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

  The scheduler will use the record to honor cluster events and queueing `hints registered` for the plugin, to inform whether to retry the pod. ([#119785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119785), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

* ignore nonexistent ns net file error when deleting container network in case a retry ([#57697](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57697), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

* Use old dns-ip mechanism with older cdk-addons. ([#57403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57403), [@wwwtyro](https://github.com/wwwtyro))

- Kube-scheduler implemented scheduling hints for the `NodeResourceFit` plugin. The scheduling hints allowed the scheduler to only retry scheduling a Pod that had been previously rejected...

- If scheduling fails on PreBind or Bind, scheduler will retry the failed pod immediately after backoff time, regardless of the reason for failing. In this case EventsToRegister (QHints) will not be taken into consideration before retry. ([#130189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130189), [@ania-borowiec](https://github.com/ania-borowiec)) [SIG Scheduling]

* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

- Introduce a new server run option 'shutdown-send-retry-after'. If true the HTTP Server will continue listening until all non longrunning request(s) in flight have been drained, during this window all incoming requests will be rejected with a status code `429` and a 'Retry-After' response header. ([#101257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101257), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

* Remove pids cgroup controller requirement when related feature gates are disabled ([#79073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79073), [@rafatio](https://github.com/rafatio))
* Fix a bug where kubelet would not retry pod sandbox creation when the restart policy of the pod is Never ([#79451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79451), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))