### SIG Azure

* The Azure cloud provider now supports standard SKU load balancer and public IP.
`excludeMasterFromStandardLB` defaults to true, which means master nodes are excluded from the standard load balancer. Also note that because all nodes (except master) are added as loadbalancer backends, the standard load balancer doesn't work with the `service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-mode` annotation.

- Add cluster name to load balancer description
- Add synchronization between Kubernetes and Keystone projects
- Add use internal DNS name for 'hostname' of nodes.
- Add support for CSI spec v0.3.0 for both Cinder and Manilla
- Add 'cascade delete' support for Octavia load balancers to improve performance.
- Add improved load balancer naming.

### SIG-scheduling

* Allow disable outbound SNAT when Azure standard load balancer is used together with outbound rules.  ([#75282](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75282), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Fixed a regression introduced in 1.23.0 where Azure load balancers were not kept up to date with the state of cluster nodes. In particular, nodes that are not in the ready state and are not newly created (i.e. not having the `node.cloudprovider.kubernetes.io/uninitialized` taint) now get removed from Azure load balancers. ([#109932](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109932), [@ricky-rav](https://github.com/ricky-rav)) [SIG Cloud...

- Fixed a regression introduced in 1.22.4 where Azure load balancers were not kept up to date with the state of cluster nodes. In particular, nodes that are not in the ready state and are not newly created (i.e. not having the `node.cloudprovider.kubernetes.io/uninitialized` taint) now get removed from Azure load balancers. ([#109933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109933), [@ricky-rav](https://github.com/ricky-rav)) [SIG Cloud...

providers now waits for the providerID value to be available before untainting it. This ensures that nodes are not declared Ready without necessary information such as the providerID and zone labels, which are required for integrations like load balancers to function correctly. Cloud providers that do not implement the GetInstanceProviderID method will not require the providerID to be set and will not fail to initialize the node for backward compatibility. ([#123713](https://github.com/kubernetes...

        assertDoesNotThrow(() -> channelManager.shutdown());
    }

    @Test
    void testLoadBalancerAccess() {
        ChannelLoadBalancer balancer = channelManager.getLoadBalancer();
        assertNotNull(balancer);

        // Should return same instance
        assertSame(balancer, channelManager.getLoadBalancer());
    }

    @Test
    void testChannelFailureHandling() throws UnknownHostException {

- [KCCM] service controller: change the cloud controller manager to make `providerID` a predicate when synchronizing nodes. This change allows load balancer integrations to ensure that  the `providerID` is set when configuring
  load balancers and targets. ([#117450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117450), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

/// tip

The same **TLS Termination Proxy** component used for HTTPS would probably also be a **Load Balancer**.

///

### Ein Load Balancer – mehrere Workercontainer { #one-load-balancer-multiple-worker-containers }