conjunction with SIG Cloud Provider, is focusing on moving internal APIs that the OpenStack (and other providers) depends upon to staging to guarantee API stability. This work also included abstracting the in-tree Cinder API and refactoring code to the external Cinder provider to remove additional Cinder volume provider code.

Additional work was also done to implement an OpenStack driver for the Cluster API effort lead by SIG Cluster Lifecycle. For the external Cloud-Provider-OpenStack code, the...

* Make fluentd pods critical ([#39146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39146), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Fluentd/Elastisearch add-on: correctly parse and index kubernetes labels ([#36857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36857), [@Shrugs](https://github.com/Shrugs))

### Heapster

- Fixed a `v1.28` regression handling negative index json patches. ([#120327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120327), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fix bug in CRD Validation Rules (beta) and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy (alpha) where all admission requests could result in `internal error: runtime error: index out of range [3] with length 3 evaluating rule: <rule name>` under certain circumstances. ([#114861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114861), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

- Fixed bug in CRD Validation Rules (beta) and `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` (alpha) where all admission requests could result in `internal error: runtime error: index out of range [3] with length 3 evaluating rule: <rule name>` under certain circumstances. ([#114857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114857), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* Updates Cinder AttachDisk operation to be more reliable by delegating Detaches to volume manager. ([#50042](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50042), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

- Fixed provisioning of Cinder volumes migrated to CSI when StorageClass with AllowedTopologies was used. ([#98311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98311), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]

- Fix bug in CRD Validation Rules (beta) and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy (alpha) where all admission requests could result in `internal error: runtime error: index out of range [3] with length 3 evaluating rule: <rule name>` under certain circumstances. ([#114864](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114864), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery]