### Bug or Regression

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Azure: Avoid setting cached Sku when updating VMSS and VMSS instances. ([#102005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102005), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

 - Fix: support removal of nodes backed by deleted non VMSS instances on Azure ([#91184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91184), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

     * alternate strategy.
     */
    abstract Equivalence<Object> defaultEquivalence();
  }

  /**
   * A helper object for operating on {@link InternalEntry} instances in a type-safe and efficient
   * manner.
   *
   * <p>For each of the four combinations of strong/weak key and strong/weak value, there are

* Address a bug which allowed the horizontal pod autoscaler to allocate `desiredReplicas` > `maxReplicas` in certain instances. ([#53690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53690), [@mattjmcnaughton](https://github.com/mattjmcnaughton))

 * <td ><code>
 *  smb://server/
 * </code></td>
 * <td ><code>
 *  ../
 * </code></td>
 * <td><code>
 *  smb://server/
 * </code></td>
 * </tr>
 *
 * </table>
 *
 * <p>
 * Instances of the <code>SmbFile</code> class are immutable; that is,
 * once created, the abstract pathname represented by an SmbFile object
 * will never change.
 *
 * @see java.io.File
 */

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

// Applicable only in a federated deployment
var getRemoteInstanceClient = func(r *http.Request, host string) (*miniogo.Core, error) {
	cred := getReqAccessCred(r, globalSite.Region())
	// In a federated deployment, all the instances share config files
	// and hence expected to have same credentials.
	core, err := miniogo.NewCore(host, &miniogo.Options{
		Creds:     credentials.NewStaticV4(cred.AccessKey, cred.SecretKey, ""),

 * </code></td></tr>
 *
 * </table>
 *
 * <p>Instances of the <code>SmbFile</code> class are immutable; that is,
 * once created, the abstract pathname represented by an SmbFile object
 * will never change.
 *
 * @see       java.io.File
 */

 - Fix: support removal of nodes backed by deleted non VMSS instances on Azure ([#91184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91184), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]