- Kubernetes is now built with Golang 1.16.9 (#105671, @cpanato) [SIG Cloud Provider, Instrumentation, Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix: consolidate logs for instance not found error (#105366, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105400, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Introduction

Returns a set of temporary security credentials for applications/clients who have been authenticated through client credential grants provided by identity provider. Example providers include KeyCloak, Okta etc.

    <dependency>
      <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
      <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.eclipse.sisu</groupId>
      <artifactId>org.eclipse.sisu.inject</artifactId>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <!-- ONLY version here; nothing else use or should use this dependency -->
    <dependency>

* Fix space issue in volumePath with vSphere Cloud Provider ([#38338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38338), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))
* Fix panic in vSphere cloud provider ([#38423](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38423), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))

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			str.WriteString(")")
		} else {
			str.WriteString(") | ")
		}
	}
	return str.String()
}

// Health - returns current status of the object layer health,
// provides if write access exists across sets, additionally
// can be used to query scenarios if health may be lost
// if this node is taken down by an external orchestrator.

- Fix: do not delete the lb that does not exist (#105777, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105185, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: leave the probe path empty for TCP probes (#105253, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]

    public void testCreateProviderAuto() {
        RdmaProvider provider = RdmaProviderFactory.createProvider("auto");
        assertNotNull(provider, "Auto provider selection should return a provider");
        assertTrue(provider.isAvailable(), "Returned provider should be available");
    }

    @Test
    public void testCreateProviderTcp() {
        RdmaProvider provider = RdmaProviderFactory.createProvider("tcp");

* Fix space issue in volumePath with vSphere Cloud Provider ([#38338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38338), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))
* Fix issue when attempting to unmount a wrong vSphere volume ([#37413](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37413), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))

        // Try providers in order of preference
        List<RdmaProvider> providers = Arrays.asList(new DisniRdmaProvider(), // InfiniBand/RoCE - highest performance
                new TcpRdmaProvider() // TCP fallback - always available
        );

        for (RdmaProvider provider : providers) {
            if (provider.isAvailable()) {
                log.info("Selected RDMA provider: {}", provider.getProviderName());

	iamConfigPolicyDBGroupsPrefix          = iamConfigPolicyDBPrefix + "groups/"

	// IAM identity file which captures identity credentials.
	iamIdentityFile = "identity.json"

	// IAM policy file which provides policies for each users.
	iamPolicyFile = "policy.json"

	// IAM group members file
	iamGroupMembersFile = "members.json"

	// IAM format file
	iamFormatFile = "format.json"

	iamFormatVersion1 = 1