* Azure cloudprovider: Reduce the polling delay for all azure clients to 5 seconds. This should speed up some operations at the cost of some additional quota. ([#43699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43699), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))

    connection.writePingAndAwaitPong()
    val elapsedNanos = System.nanoTime() - pingAtNanos
    assertThat(elapsedNanos).isGreaterThan(0L)
    assertThat(elapsedNanos).isLessThan(TimeUnit.SECONDS.toNanos(1))

    // Verify the peer received what was expected.
    val pingFrame = peer.takeFrame()
    assertThat(pingFrame.type).isEqualTo(Http2.TYPE_PING)
    assertThat(pingFrame.streamId).isEqualTo(0)

- Apiserver repair controller is resilient to etcd errors during bootstrap and retries during 30 seconds before failing. ([#126671](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126671), [@fusida](https://github.com/fusida)) [SIG Network]

* GCE/GKE load balancer health check default interval changes from 2 seconds to 8 seconds, unhealthyThreshold to 3. ([#70099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70099), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

	for {
		select {
		case <-healTimer.C:
			c.RLock()
			enabled := c.enabled
			c.RUnlock()
			if enabled {
				refreshStart := time.Now()
				c.healIAMSystem(ctx, objAPI) // heal IAM system first
				c.healBuckets(ctx, objAPI)   // heal buckets subsequently

				took := time.Since(refreshStart).Seconds()

* GCE/GKE load balancer health check default interval changes from 2 seconds to 8 seconds, unhealthyThreshold to 3. ([#70099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70099), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

		return nil
	}
	dur := time.Until(*exp)
	if dur <= 0 {
		return errors.New("unsupported expiration time")
	}
	condValues["DurationSeconds"] = []string{strconv.FormatInt(int64(dur.Seconds()), 10)}
	return nil
}

func commonAddServiceAccount(r *http.Request, ldap bool) (context.Context, auth.Credentials, newServiceAccountOpts, madmin.AddServiceAccountReq, string, APIError) {
	ctx := r.Context()

func (s *xlStorage) GetDiskID() (string, error) {
	s.RLock()
	diskID := s.diskID
	fileInfo := s.formatFileInfo
	lastCheck := s.formatLastCheck

	// check if we have a valid disk ID that is less than 1 seconds old.
	if fileInfo != nil && diskID != "" && time.Since(lastCheck) <= 1*time.Second {
		s.RUnlock()
		return diskID, nil
	}
	s.RUnlock()

	fi, err := s.checkFormatJSON()
	if err != nil {

    public static final String LABELS_search_result_status_over = "{labels.search_result_status_over}";

    /** The key of the message: ({0} seconds) */
    public static final String LABELS_search_result_time = "{labels.search_result_time}";

    /** The key of the message: Prev */
    public static final String LABELS_prev_page = "{labels.prev_page}";

- Expose `rest_client_rate_limiter_duration_seconds` metric to component-base to track client side rate limiter latency in seconds. Broken down by verb and URL. ([#100311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100311), [@IonutBajescu](https://github.com/IonutBajescu)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]