* fix azure disk attachment error on Linux ([#70002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70002), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* GCE/GKE load balancer health check default interval changes from 2 seconds to 8 seconds, unhealthyThreshold to 3. ([#70099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70099), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

* GCE/GKE load balancer health check default interval changes from 2 seconds to 8 seconds, unhealthyThreshold to 3. ([#70099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70099), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

        override fun contentType(): MediaType = "text/plain".toMediaType()

        override fun writeTo(sink: BufferedSink) {
          sink.writeUtf8("abc")
          sink.timeout().deadline(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
        }
      }
    val request1 =
      Request
        .Builder()
        .url(server.url("/"))
        .method("POST", requestBody1)
        .build()

				iamLogIf(ctx, fmt.Errorf("Failure in periodic refresh for IAM (duration: %s): %v", time.Since(refreshStart), err), logger.WarningKind)
			} else {
				took := time.Since(refreshStart).Seconds()
				if took > maxDurationSecondsForLog {
					// Log if we took a lot of time to load.
					logger.Info("IAM refresh took (duration: %.2fs)", took)
				}
			}

			// Run purge routines once in each hour.

- Renames the timeout field for the DelegatingAuthenticationOptions to TokenRequestTimeout and set the timeout only for the token review client. Previously the timeout was also applied to watches making them reconnecting every 10 seconds. ([#101102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101102), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

* Azure cloudprovider: Reduce the polling delay for all azure clients to 5 seconds. This should speed up some operations at the cost of some additional quota. ([#43699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43699), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))

    connection.writePingAndAwaitPong()
    val elapsedNanos = System.nanoTime() - pingAtNanos
    assertThat(elapsedNanos).isGreaterThan(0L)
    assertThat(elapsedNanos).isLessThan(TimeUnit.SECONDS.toNanos(1))

    // Verify the peer received what was expected.
    val pingFrame = peer.takeFrame()
    assertThat(pingFrame.type).isEqualTo(Http2.TYPE_PING)
    assertThat(pingFrame.streamId).isEqualTo(0)

* GCE/GKE load balancer health check default interval changes from 2 seconds to 8 seconds, unhealthyThreshold to 3. ([#70099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70099), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

	for {
		select {
		case <-healTimer.C:
			c.RLock()
			enabled := c.enabled
			c.RUnlock()
			if enabled {
				refreshStart := time.Now()
				c.healIAMSystem(ctx, objAPI) // heal IAM system first
				c.healBuckets(ctx, objAPI)   // heal buckets subsequently

				took := time.Since(refreshStart).Seconds()

- Apiserver repair controller is resilient to etcd errors during bootstrap and retries during 30 seconds before failing. ([#126671](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126671), [@fusida](https://github.com/fusida)) [SIG Network]