- Kubeadm:...

  - **apiserver_flowcontrol_priority_level_seat_count_watermarks**: histograms of high and low watermarks of number of seats occupied by executing requests (both regular and final-delay phases included), broken down by priority_level.

Kubeadm: Expose the `kubeadm join` workflow as phases

- kubeadm now includes the ability to specify certificate encryption and decryption keys for the upload and download certificate phases as part of the new v1beta2 kubeadm config format. ([#77012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77012), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#117916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117916), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#117724](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117724), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

   ([#123341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123341), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Kubeadm: switch control-plane static...

            the project. Note that in case of a build with subprojects, only the default goal of the top-level
            project is relevant, i.e. the default goals of subprojects are ignored. Since Maven 3,
            multiple goals/phases can be separated by whitespace.</description>
          <type>String</type>
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          <version>3.0.0+</version>
          <description>

- kubeadm: Avoided loading the file passed to `--kubeconfig` during `kubeadm init` phases more than once. ([#129006](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129006), [@kokes](https://github.com/kokes))