- Fix detach from non-existant nodes and support dangling volumes (#104912, @gnufied) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Revert PR #102925 which introduced unexpected scheduling behavior based on balanced resource allocation (#105526, @harisund) [SIG Scheduling]

## Dependencies

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- Add support for node shutdown taint.

The external provider includes all of the above with the additional fixes and features:
- Fix bug to prevent allocation of existing floating IP.
- Fix Cinder authentication bug when OS_DOMAIN_NAME not specified.
- Fix Keystone authentication errors by skipping synchronization for unscoped tokens.

- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104686, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Revert PR #102925 which introduced unexpected scheduling behavior based on balanced resource allocation (#105238, @damemi) [SIG Scheduling]
- Updates golang.org/x/text to v0.3.6 to fix CVE-2020-28852 (#102601, @jonesbr17) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Node and Storage]

- During device plugin allocation, resources requested by the pod can only be allocated if the device plugin has registered itself to kubelet AND healthy devices are present on the node to be allocated. If these conditions are not sattsfied, the pod would fail with `UnexpectedAdmissionError`...