* Deprecate auto detecting cloud providers in kubelet. Auto detecting cloud providers go against the initiative for out-of-tree cloud providers as we'll now depend on cAdvisor integrations with cloud providers instead of the core repo. In the near future, `--cloud-provider` for kubelet will either be an empty string or `external`.  ([#51312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51312),...

        $ kubectl version
        # paste output here
        ```

        </details>
    validations:
      required: true

  - type: textarea
    id: cloudProvider
    attributes:
      label: Cloud provider
      value: |
        <details>

        </details>
    validations:
      required: true

  - type: textarea
    id: osVersion
    attributes:
      label: OS version
      value: |

fa-closed-captioning:before{content:"\f20a"}.fa-cloud:before{content:"\f0c2"}.fa-cloud-download-alt:before{content:"\f381"}.fa-cloud-meatball:before{content:"\f73b"}.fa-cloud-moon:before{content:"\f6c3"}.fa-cloud-moon-rain:before{content:"\f73c"}.fa-cloud-rain:before{content:"\f73d"}.fa-cloud-showers-heavy:before{content:"\f740"}.fa-cloud-sun:before{content:"\f6c4"}.fa-cloud-sun-rain:before{content:"\f743"}.fa-cloud-upload-alt:before{content:"\f382"}.fa-cloudscale:before{content:"\f383"}.fa-clou...

			<artifactId>commonmark-ext-yaml-front-matter</artifactId>
			<version>${commonmark.version}</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
			<artifactId>google-cloud-storage</artifactId>
			<version>${google.cloud.storage.version}</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>junit</groupId>
			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
			<version>${junit.version}</version>

### SIG Cloud Provider

 * `CLEARTEXT` is an insecure configuration that is used for `http://` URLs.

These loosely follow the model set in [Google Cloud Policies](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-policies-concepts). We [track changes](../security/tls_configuration_history.md) to this policy.

        }

        final String lowerEndpoint = endpoint.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT);

        // GCS patterns
        if (lowerEndpoint.contains("storage.googleapis.com") || lowerEndpoint.contains(".storage.cloud.google.com")) {
            return StorageType.GCS;
        }

        // S3 patterns
        if (lowerEndpoint.contains(".amazonaws.com") || lowerEndpoint.contains("s3.") || lowerEndpoint.contains("s3-")) {

#      - junit:
#          results: "**/*Junit/*.xml, **/test-results/*/*.xml"
#          keep-long-stdio: true
#          allow-empty-results: true
      # Upload additional logs
      - google-cloud-storage:
          credentials-id: 'elasticsearch-ci-gcs-plugin'
          uploads:
            - classic:
                file-pattern: 'build/*.tar.bz2'

* Deprecate auto detecting cloud providers in kubelet. Auto detecting cloud providers go against the initiative for out-of-tree cloud providers as we'll now depend on cAdvisor integrations with cloud providers instead of the core repo. In the near future, `--cloud-provider` for kubelet will either be an empty string or `external`.  ([#51312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51312),...

#### Cloud Provider Support
* [alpha] Improved support for out-of-tree and out-of-process cloud providers, a.k.a pluggable cloud providers. See [Build and Run cloud-controller-manager](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/running-cloud-controller) documentation.


### **Cluster Federation**
#### Placement Policy