- Kubelet: The `--azure-container-registry-config` flag has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release, please use `--image-credential-provider-config` and `--image-credential-provider-bin-dir` to setup acr credential provider instead. ([#118596](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118596), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Node]

- Removed the last remaining in-tree gcp cloud provider and credential provider.
  Please use the external cloud provider and credential provider from https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-gcp
  instead. ([#124519](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124519), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Autoscaling, Cloud Provider, Instrumentation, Network, Node, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

SIG-VMware development was primarily focused on fixing bugs for the in-tree cloud provider, starting the development of the external cloud provider and taking ownership of the cluster-api provider for vSphere.

In-tree cloud provider bug fixes and improvements included:
- Adding initial Zones support to the provider using vSphere Tags
- Improving the testing harness for the cloud provider by introducing vcsim for automated testing

* vSphere cloud provider: Remove the dependency of login information on worker nodes for vsphere cloud provider. ([#43545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43545), [@luomiao](https://github.com/luomiao))

        // When
        DfFinalTimeZoneProvider provider = curtainBeforeHook.createFinalTimeZoneProvider();

        // Then
        TimeZone first = provider.provide();
        TimeZone second = provider.provide();
        assertSame("Provider should return the same TimeZone instance", first, second);
    }

    public void test_createFinalTimeZoneProvider_toStringContainsTimeZoneId() {
        // When

natively within Kubernetes, without exposing an HTTP endpoint or
using an extra executable.

### Kubelet Credential Provider Graduates to Beta

Originally released as Alpha in Kubernetes 1.20, the kubelet's support for
[image credential providers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/kubelet-credential-provider/kubelet-credential-provider/)
has now graduated to Beta.

Fess is based on [OpenSearch](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch), but knowledge/experience about OpenSearch is _not_ required. Fess provides an easy to use Administration GUI to configure the system via your browser.

- Azure VMSS/VMSSVM clients now suppress requests on throttling ([#86740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86740), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Azure cloud provider cache TTL is configurable, list of the azure cloud provider is as following:
  - "availabilitySetNodesCacheTTLInSeconds"
  - "vmssCacheTTLInSeconds"

- Fix: set nil cache entry based on old cache ([#87591](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87591), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

        final FessConfig fessConfig = createFessConfigWithResponseHeaders("");
        FessActionAdjustmentProvider provider = new FessActionAdjustmentProvider(fessConfig);
        final Map<String, String> headerMap = new HashMap<>();
        provider.adjustActionResponseHeaders("text/plain", (k, v) -> headerMap.put(k, v));

        assertEquals(0, headerMap.size());
    }