- `kubeadm`: added a new "kubeadm config validate" command that can be used to
  validate any input config file. Use the `--config` flag to pass a config file
  to it. See the command `--help` screen for more information. As a result of adding
  this new command, enhance the validation capabilities of the existing "kubeadm

- Kubelet config file will be backed up to `/etc/kubernetes/tmp/` folder with `kubeadm-kubelet-config` append with a random suffix as the filename ([#114695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114695), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

The Kubelet now exports metrics that report the assigned (`node_config_assigned`), last-known-good (`node_config_last_known_good`), and active (`node_config_active`) config sources, and a metric indicating whether the node is experiencing a config-related error (`node_config_error`). The config source metrics always report the value `1`, and carry the `node_config_name`, `node_config_uid`, `node_config_resource_version`, and `node_config_kubelet_key labels`, which identify the config version. The error...

   * -viper-config can be used to set also the options defined by command line flags
   * the default config file is "e2e.yaml/toml/json/..." and the test starts when no such config is found (as before) but if -viper-config is used, the config file must exist
   * -viper-config can be used to select a file with full path, with or without file suffix

_hash_status_last_timestamp_seconds`, `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_failures_total`, `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_success_total`, `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_last_timestamp_seconds`.
  
  Fixed bug to surface events for the following metrics: `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_failures_total`, `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_last_timestamp_seconds`, `apiser...

* GCI: Add two GCI specific metadata pairs ([#25105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25105), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))
* Add an entry to the salt config to allow Debian jessie on GCE. ([#25123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25123), [@jlewi](https://github.com/jlewi))
    * As with the existing Wheezy image on GCE, docker is expected to already be installed in the image.

    * rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1alpha1

    * settings.k8s.io/v1alpha1

    * If you wish to continue using them in v1.8, please enable them explicitly using the `--runtime-config` flag on the apiserver (for example, `--runtime-config="rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1alpha1,settings.k8s.io/v1alpha1"`)

- KMS: added validation for duplicate kms config name when auto reload is enabled. If you enabled automatic reload of encryption configuration with API server flag `--encryption-provider-config-automatic-reload`, ensure all the KMS provider names (v1 and v2) in the encryption configuration...

* GCE bring-up: Differentiate NODE_TAGS from NODE_INSTANCE_PREFIX ([#29141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29141), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Fix logrotate config on GCI ([#29139](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29139), [@adityakali](https://github.com/adityakali))

* kubeadm: remove deprecated kubeadm config print-defaults command ([#71467](https://github.com/kuberne...