- 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]

  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

  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))

* 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))

- Kubeadm: apply further improvements to the tentative support for concurrent etcd member join. Fixes a bug where multiple members can receive the same hostname. Increase the etcd client dial timeout and retry timeout for add/remove/... operations. ([#87505](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87505), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* 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))

- 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))

* 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))

- 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]