* kubeadm: add back `--cert-dir` option for `kubeadm init phase certs sa` ([#73239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73239), [@mattkelly](https://github.com/mattkelly))

* The alpha `--init-config-dir` flag has been removed. Instead, use the `--config` flag to reference a kubelet configuration file directly. ([#57624](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57624), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

    - [DNS](#dns)
    - [DNS Autoscaler](#dns-autoscaler)
    - [Cluster Autoscaler](#cluster-autoscaler-1)
    - [Cluster Load Balancing](#cluster-load-balancing)
    - [etcd Empty Dir Cleanup](#etcd-empty-dir-cleanup)
    - [Fluentd](#fluentd)
    - [Heapster](#heapster)
    - [Registry](#registry)
  - [External Dependency Version Information](#external-dependency-version-information)

- E2e.test: removed the  `--viper-config` flag. If you were previously using this to pass flags to `e2e.test` via a file, you will need to pass them directly on the command line, e.g. `e2e.test --e2e-output-dir`. ([#102598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102598), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

### General ephemeral volumes

* fix the error prone account creation method of blob disk ([#59739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59739), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Get parent dir via canonical absolute path when trying to judge mount-point ([#58433](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58433), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

* The dynamic Kubelet config feature is now beta, and the DynamicKubeletConfig feature gate is on by default. In order to use dynamic Kubelet config, ensure that the Kubelet's --dynamic-config-dir option is set.  ([#64275](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64275), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

- Kubelet: the following dockershim related flags are also removed along with dockershim `--experimental-dockershim-root-directory`, `--docker-endpoint`, `--image-pull-progress-deadline`, `--network-plugin`, `--cni-conf-dir`, `--cni-bin-dir`, `--cni-cache-dir`, `--network-plugin-mtu`. ([#106907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106907), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		if store.getUsersSysType() == MinIOUsersSysType {
			groupsList := listedConfigItems[groupsListKey]
			for _, item := range groupsList {
				group := path.Dir(item)
				if err = iamOS.loadGroup(ctx, group, cache.iamGroupsMap); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, errNoSuchGroup) {
					return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to load the group: %w", err)
				}
				groupSet.Add(group)
			}

  - apiserver-advertise-address / apiserver-bind-port: use either localAPIEndpoint from InitConfiguration or controlPlaneEndpoint from ClusterConfiguration.
  - cluster-name: use clusterName from ClusterConfiguration
  - cert-dir: use certificatesDir from ClusterConfiguration ([#94879](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94879), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]