- Kubeadm: added retry to all the calls to the etcd API so kubeadm will be more resilient to network glitches ([#85201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85201), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))

*   Kernel modules are now loaded automatically inside a kube-proxy pod ([#52003](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52003),[ @vfreex](https://github.com/vfreex))
*   Improve resilience by annotating kube-dns addon with podAntiAffinity to prefer scheduling on different nodes. ([#52193](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52193),[ @StevenACoffman](https://github.com/StevenACoffman))

    * faster handoff when a leader-elected process is gracefully terminated.
* Make volume binder resilient to races between main schedule loop and async binding operation  ([#72045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72045), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

- Kubeadm: Add retries for kubeadm join / UpdateStatus to make update status more resilient by adding a retry loop to this operation ([#91952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91952), [@xlgao-zju](https://github.com/xlgao-zju)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Introduced `Wait(context.Context) error` method in pkg k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/storage/cacher to improve watch cache initialization resilience. ([#125450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125450), [@mauri870](https://github.com/mauri870))

ister-cluster/cpu-management-policies/), which allows users to request exclusive CPU cores.  This helps performance in a variety of use-cases, including network latency sensitive applications, as well as applications that benefit from CPU cache residency.  Next, [Huge Pages](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/manage-hugepages/scheduling-hugepages/), which allows pods to consume either 2Mi or 1Gi Huge Pages.  This benefits applications that consume large amounts of memory.  Use of Huge Pages is a common...