- [ ] Ambient
- [ ] Configuration Infrastructure
- [ ] Docs
- [ ] Dual Stack
- [ ] Installation
- [ ] Networking
- [ ] Performance and Scalability
- [ ] Extensions and Telemetry
- [ ] Security
- [ ] Test and Release
- [ ] User Experience
- [ ] Developer Infrastructure
- [ ] Upgrade
- [ ] Multi Cluster
- [ ] Virtual Machine
- [ ] Control Plane Revisions

**Describe alternatives you've considered**

**Affected product area (please put an X in all that apply)**

[ ] Ambient
[ ] Docs
[ ] Dual Stack
[ ] Installation
[ ] Networking
[ ] Performance and Scalability
[ ] Extensions and Telemetry
[ ] Security
[ ] Test and Release
[ ] User Experience
[ ] Developer Infrastructure

**Affected features (please put an X in all that apply)**

[ ] Multi Cluster

> In a cloud-native environment, scalability is not a function of the application but the orchestration platform.

      label: Affected product area
      options:
      - label: "Ambient"
      - label: "Docs"
      - label: "Dual Stack"
      - label: "Installation"
      - label: "Networking"
      - label: "Performance and Scalability"
      - label: "Extensions and Telemetry"
      - label: "Security"
      - label: "Test and Release"
      - label: "User Experience"
      - label: "Developer Infrastructure"
      - label: "Upgrade"

- **Isolation**: Tests should be isolated to prevent interference between different components and test cases.
- **Scalability**: The test setup should be scalable to accommodate additional tests and components in the future.

## Conclusion

### SIG Scalability

[SIG Scalability][] is responsible for scalability testing, measuring and
improving system performance, and answering questions related to scalability.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Scalability focused on automating large cluster
scalability testing in a continuous integration (CI) environment. The SIG
defined a concrete process for scalability testing, created

- Ensure that volume capability and staging target fields are present in nodeExpansion CSI calls

- Reduce critical section in watchcache to fix kube-apiserver scalability under heavy load of list requests ([#122027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122027), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Added jitter factor to lease controller that better smears load on kube-apiserver over time. ([#101652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101652), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]
- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- CephRBD volume plugin ( `kubernetes.io/rbd`) was removed in this release. And its csi migration support was also removed, so the `rbd` volume type became non-functional. Alternative is to use RBD CSI driver (https:/...