* AWS/GCE: Spread PetSet volume creation across zones, create GCE volumes in non-master zones ([#27553](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27553), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

    * As with the existing Wheezy image on GCE, docker is expected to already be installed in the image.
* Fix DeletingLoadBalancer event generation. ([#24833](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24833), [@a-robinson](https://github.com/a-robinson))

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Fixed bug with reporting metrics in event-exporter ([#60126](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60126), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
* Bug fix: Clusters with GCE feature 'DiskAlphaAPI' enabled were unable to dynamically provision GCE PD volumes. ([#59447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59447), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))



# v1.8.9

* GCE: Updates GLBC version to 1.0.1 which includes a fix which prevents multi-cluster ingress objects from creating full load balancers. ([#62075](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62075), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- Windows nodes on GCE now have the Windows firewall enabled by default. ([#78507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78507), [@pjh](https://github.com/pjh))
- Added `CNI_VERSION` and `CNI_SHA1` environment variables in `kube-up.sh` to configure CNI versions on GCE. ([#76353](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76353), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

      - [Generic API Server](#generic-api-server)
    - [Client](#client)
      - [client-go](#client-go)
    - [Cloud Provider](#cloud-provider)
      - [AWS](#aws)
      - [Azure](#azure)
      - [GCE](#gce)
      - [GKE](#gke)
      - [vSphere](#vsphere)
    - [Federation](#federation-2)
      - [kubefed](#kubefed)
      - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-13)

* GCE: Update cloud provider to use TPU v1 API ([#64727](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64727), [@yguo0905](https://github.com/yguo0905))

      - [**Other**](#other)
    - [**Apps**](#apps-1)
    - [**Auth**](#auth-3)
      - [**Audit**](#audit-1)
      - [**RBAC**](#rbac)
      - [**Other**](#other-1)
      - [**GCE**](#gce)
    - [**Autoscaling**](#autoscaling)
    - [**AWS**](#aws-1)
    - [**Azure**](#azure-1)
    - [**CLI**](#cli-1)
      - [**Kubectl**](#kubectl)
    - [**Cluster Lifecycle**](#cluster-lifecycle-3)

* Use upgraded container-vm by default on worker nodes for GCE k8s clusters ([#31023](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31023), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))

### Other notable changes

* Enable kubelet eviction whenever inodes free is < 5% on GCE ([#31545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31545), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))

* 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))