*   Azure Load Balancer Auto Mode: Services can be annotated to allow auto selection of available load balancers and to provide specific availability sets that host the load balancers (for example, `service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-mode=auto|as1,as2...`)

### **CLI**

#### **Kubectl**

}

// LoadBalancerIngress represents the status of a load-balancer ingress point:
// traffic intended for the service should be sent to an ingress point.
message LoadBalancerIngress {
  // IP is set for load-balancer ingress points that are IP based
  // (typically GCE or OpenStack load-balancers)
  // +optional
  optional string ip = 1;

  // Hostname is set for load-balancer ingress points that are DNS based

### SIG Azure

* The Azure cloud provider now supports standard SKU load balancer and public IP.
`excludeMasterFromStandardLB` defaults to true, which means master nodes are excluded from the standard load balancer. Also note that because all nodes (except master) are added as loadbalancer backends, the standard load balancer doesn't work with the `service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-mode` annotation.

- Fixed two scheduler...

### Cloud Provider

* Fix load balancer issues when running zero nodes in Azure vmss. ([#68775](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68775), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fix potential panic when getting azure load balancer status ([#68609](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68609), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Ensure ownership when deleting a load balancer security group ([#74311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74311), [@hpedrorodrigues](https://github.com/hpedrorodrigues))
* kubelet: updated logic of verifying a static critical pod. ([#75144](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75144), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

#### Load Balancing
* [stable] Source IP Preservation - change Cloud load-balancer strategy to health-checks and respond to health check only on nodes that host pods for the service. See [Create an External Load Balancer - Preserving the client source IP](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/create-external-load-balancer/#preserving-the-client-source-ip).

- Add cluster name to load balancer description
- Add synchronization between Kubernetes and Keystone projects
- Add use internal DNS name for 'hostname' of nodes.
- Add support for CSI spec v0.3.0 for both Cinder and Manilla
- Add 'cascade delete' support for Octavia load balancers to improve performance.
- Add improved load balancer naming.

### SIG-scheduling

- Support the node label `node.kubernetes.io/exclude-from-external-load-balancers` ([#95542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95542), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]