multiple clusters ensures that cluster-level autoscalers are
consistently deployed across those clusters, and dynamically managed
to ensure that autoscaling can occur optimially in all clusters,
within a set of global constraints on the total number of replicas
permitted across all clusters.  If replicas are not
required in some clusters due to low system load or insufficient quota

- Kubeadm: add support for `127.0.0.1` as advertise address. kubeadm will automatically replace this value with matching global unicast IP address on the loopback interface. ([#83475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83475), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))

  - "nsgCacheTTLInSeconds"
  - "routeTableCacheTTLInSeconds"
  ([#86266](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86266), [@zqingqing1](https://github.com/zqingqing1)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* In the vSphere cloud provider the `Global.vm-uuid` configuration option is not deprecated anymore, it can be used to overwrite the VMUUID on the controller-manager ([#65152](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65152), [@alvaroaleman](https://github.com/alvaroaleman))

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where the --rootfs global flag does not work with "kubeadm upgrade node" for control plane nodes. ([#123097](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123097), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

    * --docker-tls
    * --docker-tls-ca
    * --docker-tls-cert
    * --docker-tls-key
    * --enable_load_reader
    * --event_storage_age_limit
    * --event_storage_event_limit
    * --global_housekeeping_interval
    * --google-json-key
    * --log_cadvisor_usage
    * --machine_id_file
    * --storage_driver_user
    * --storage_driver_password
    * --storage_driver_host

- The apimachinery util/net function used to detect the bind address `ResolveBindAddress()` takes into consideration global IP addresses on loopback interfaces when 1) the host has default routes, or 2) there are no global IPs on those interfaces in order to support more complex network scenarios like BGP Unnumbered RFC 5549 ([#95790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95790), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))...

* Add --request-timeout to kube-apiserver to make global request timeout configurable. ([#51415](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51415), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* `kubectl patch` now supports `--dry-run`. ([#60675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60675), [@timoreimann](https://github.com/timoreimann))
* The global flag `--match-server-version` is now global.  `kubectl version` will respect it. ([#63613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63613), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

* Resolves a bug that prevented sending a multi-version custom resource to an admission webhook. ([#79495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79495), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Pass-through volume MountOptions to global mount (NodeStageVolume) on the node for CSI ([#80191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80191), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))