### **Scheduling**

#### **Hardware Accelerators**

* kubeadm: Make `kubeadm reset` tolerant of a disabled docker service. ([#43951](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43951), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))
* Fix [broken service accounts when using dedicated service account key](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/44285). ([#44169](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44169), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

The Kubernetes community [has written a blog post about this in detail](https://blog.k8s.io/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-and-docker/) with [a dedicated FAQ page for it](https://blog.k8s.io/2020/12/02/dockershim-faq/).

### External credential provider for client-go

  - liveness/readiness probes to kube-scheduler MUST use HTTPS now, and the default port has been changed to 10259.
  - Applications that fetch metrics from kube-scheduler should use a dedicated service account which is allowed to access nonResourceURLs `/metrics`. ([#96345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96345), [@ingvagabund](https://github.com/ingvagabund)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Scheduling and Testing]

* Kubeadm:  attributes for join --control-plane workflow are now grouped into a dedicated JoinControlPlane struct ([#70870](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70870), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))

  - liveness/readiness probes to controller-manager MUST use HTTPS now, and the default port has been changed to 10257.
  - Applications that fetch metrics from controller-manager should use a dedicated service account which is allowed to access nonResourceURLs `/metrics`. ([#96216](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96216), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG API Machinery, Cloud Provider, Instrumentation and Testing]

* kubelet: make dockershim.sock configurable ([#43914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43914), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))
* Fix [broken service accounts when using dedicated service account key](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/44285). ([#44169](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44169), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

* Cluster Autoscaler 1.0.2 ([#55161](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55161), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))
* - fluentd-gcp runs with a dedicated fluentd-gcp service account ([#54175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54175), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
    * - Stop mounting the host certificates into fluentd's prometheus-to-sd container

gather and serve current metrics values. It provides the Metrics API that is used by `kubectl top`, and horizontal pod autoscaler. Note that it doesn't include some features of Heapster, such as short term metrics for graphs in kube-dashboard and dedicated push sinks, which proved hard to maintain and scale. Clusters using Heapster for transferring metrics into long-term storage should consider using their metric solution's native Kubernetes support, if present, or should consider alternative solutions....

### Bug or Regression

- Disabled a previously on-by-default optimization for the API server where each **watch** response used a dedicated goroutine. The `APIServingWithRoutine` feature gate has been demoted from beta to alpha, and is now off by default. ([#126481](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126481), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy)) [SIG API Machinery]