- Kubeadm: add the deprecated flag --port=0 to kube-controller-manager and kube-scheduler manifests to disable insecure serving. Without this flag the components by default serve (e.g. /metrics) insecurely on the default node interface (controlled by --address). Users that wish to override this behavior and enable insecure serving can pass...

  - The deprecated `--etcd-quorum-read` flag has been removed. Quorum reads are now always enabled when fetching data from etcd. Remove the `--etcd-quorum-read` flag from kube-apiserver invocations before upgrading.
- kube-controller-manager
  - The deprecated `--insecure-experimental-approve-all-kubelet-csrs-for-group` flag has been removed.
- kubelet

  - The deprecated --storage-versions flag has been removed. The storage versions will always be the default value built-in the kube-apiserver binary. ([#67678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67678), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

#### Network

- The deprecated flag `--conntrack-max` has been removed from kube-proxy. Users of this flag should switch to `--conntrack-min` and `--conntrack-max-per-core` instead. ([#78399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78399), [@rikatz](https://github.com/rikatz))

  - the `--cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs` flag has been deprecated. This flag will be removed once the GCE Cloud Provider is removed from kube-apiserver. ([#81094](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81094), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

 - Kubelet flag `--keep-terminated-pod-volumes` was removed.  This flag was deprecated in 2017. ([#122082](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122082), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]

* The deprecated `--service-account-private-key-file` flag has been removed from the cloud-controller-manager. The flag is still present and supported in the kube-controller-manager. ([#65182](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65182), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* kubectl port-forward no longer supports the deprecated -p <pod-name> flag; the flag itself is unnecessary and should be replaced by just the `<pod-name>`. ([#59705](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59705), [@phsiao](https://github.com/phsiao))

     `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `true`.

   - In version 1.9, this behavior will be enabled by default, and must be explicitly
     disabled by setting the `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `false`.

### Cluster Lifecycle

- The `auto-detect` behavior of the kubelet's `--cloud-provider` flag is deprecated.

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