);

            Map<ElasticsearchDistributionType, TaskProvider<?>> vmLifecyleTasks = lifecycleTasks(vmProject, "distroTest");
            Map<String, TaskProvider<?>> vmVersionTasks = versionTasks(vmProject, "distroUpgradeTest");
            TaskProvider<Task> distroTest = vmProject.getTasks().register("distroTest");

            // windows boxes get windows distributions, and linux boxes get linux distributions

  // with the java-gradle-plugin
  automatedPublishing = false
  plugins {
    build {
      id = 'elasticsearch.build'
      implementationClass = 'org.elasticsearch.gradle.internal.BuildPlugin'
    }
    distroTest {
      id = 'elasticsearch.distro-test'
      implementationClass = 'org.elasticsearch.gradle.internal.test.DistroTestPlugin'
    }
    dockerSupport {
      id = 'elasticsearch.docker-support'

would run:
+
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./gradlew :qa:os:centos-7:distroTest.default-rpm :qa:os:centos-7:distroTest.default-linux-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to `0.3.2` based on Go `1.21.1`. ([#120527](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120527), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))
- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to `0.3.3` based on Go `1.21.2`. ([#121073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121073), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))

- Updated distroless iptables to use released image `registry.k8s.io/build-image/distroless-iptables:v0.2.2`
  - Updated setcap to use released image `registry.k8s.io/build-image/setcap:bullseye-v1.4.2` ([#116509](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116509), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Testing]

- Updated distroless I-tables to use registry.k8s.io/build-image/distroless-iptables:v0.2.5 ([#118541](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118541), [@jeremyrickard](https://github.com/jeremyrickard)) [SIG Testing]

### Kube-proxy images are now based on distroless images

- Switch core master base images (kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler) from debian to distroless ([#90674](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90674), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Release and Scalability]

support for flex-volumes in kubeadm. Users were advised to migrate away from flex-volumes as recommended by SIG Storage, since 1.22. If kubeadm users wish to continue using the feature, they would need a custom image for the KCM that is not based on distroless, pass the KCM flag `--flex-volume-plugin-dir` and mount the directory `/usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec` in the KCM static pod using kubeadm's `extraVolumes` mechanism before upgrading to 1.36. Up until now, kubeadm automatically...

   ([#123343](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123343), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander))
- Updated `distroless-iptables` to `v0.5.0`, debian-base to `bookworm-v1.0.1`, and setcap to `bookworm-v1.0.1`.
   ([#123170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123170), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))