transport chain. If you don't need any of this functionality, it is sufficient to pass a context created with `context.Background()` to these functions. The `(*"k8s.io/client-go/rest".Request).Context` method is removed now that all methods that execute a request accept a context directly. ([#87597](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87597), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese)) [SIG API Machinery, SIG Apps, SIG Auth, SIG Autoscaling, SIG CLI, SIG Cloud Provider, SIG Cluster Lifecycle,...