This release brings additional power to both local storage and Persistent Volumes. [Mount namespace propagation](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/432) allows a container to mount a volume as rslave so that host mounts can be seen inside the container, or as rshared so that mounts made inside a container can be seen by the host. (Note that this is [not supported on Windows](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60275).) [Local Ephemeral Storage Capacity Isolation](https:/...

creation of dedicated nodes with extended resources. If operators want to create dedicated nodes with extended resources (such as GPUs, FPGAs, and so on), they are expected to taint the node with extended resource name as the key. This admission controller, if enabled, automatically adds tolerations for such taints to pods requesting extended resources, so users don't have to manually add these tolerations. ([#55839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55839),[ @mindprince](https://github.com/mindprince))...

### CSI Health Monitoring

* Fixed the webhook admission plugin so that it works even if the apiserver and the nodes are in two networks (e.g., in GKE). ([#50476](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50476), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

    * To avoid that negative effect only use per pod metrics from pods that are:
    * - ready (so metrics about them should be valid), or
    * - unready but creation and last readiness change timestamps are apart more than 10s (pods that have formerly been ready and so metrics are in at least some cases (pod becoming unready because of overload) very useful).

### Bug or Regression

- Fixed a regression since 1.27.0 in scheduler framework when running score plugins. 
  The `skippedScorePlugins` number might be greater than `enabledScorePlugins`, 
  so when initializing a slice the cap(len(skippedScorePlugins) - len(enabledScorePlugins)) is negative, 

* Increase Azure default maximumLoadBalancerRuleCount to 250. ([#72621](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72621), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fixes a NPD bug on GCI, so that it disables glog writing to files for log-counter ([#76211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76211), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

* VMSS cache is added so that less chances of VMSS GET throttling ([#85885](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85885), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
* Update go-winio module version from 0.4.11 to 0.4.14 ([#85739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85739), [@wawa0210](https://github.com/wawa0210))

## Changelog since v1.17.15

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Add a new flag to set priority for the kubelet on Windows nodes so that workloads cannot overwhelm the node there by disrupting kubelet process. ([#96159](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96159), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla)) [SIG Node]

* [metrics-server addon] Restore connecting to nodes via IP addresses ([#76819](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76819), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
* Fixes a NPD bug on GCI, so that it disables glog writing to files for log-counter ([#76211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76211), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))