- The kubelet, when using `--cloud-provider=external` can use the `--node-ip` flag with one of the unspecified addresses 0.0.0.0 or ::, to create the Node with the IP of the default gateway of the corresponding IP family and then delegating the responsibility to the external cloud provider. This solves the bootstrap problems of out of tree cloud providers that are deployed as Pods within the cluster. ([#125337](https://github.com/kubernetes/k...

### SIG Cloud Provider

- 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]

([#64706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64706), [@liztio](https://github.com/liztio))

- Updated the `v1` credential provider configuration to include the `tokenAttributes.cacheType` field. This field is required and must be set to either `ServiceAccount` or `Token` when configuring a provider that uses a service account to fetch registry credentials. ([#132617](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132617),...

// a rolePolicies entry is an empty string, that server will be configured as
// policy-claim based openid server. NOTE that a valid configuration can have a
// policy claim based provider only if it is the only OpenID provider.
func (s *TestSuiteIAM) SetUpOpenIDs(c *check, testApps []OpenIDClientAppParams, rolePolicies []string) error {
	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), testDefaultTimeout)
	defer cancel()

- The in-tree cloud provider for vSphere has been deprecated and removed. Users are advised to utilize the external cloud provider and CSI driver available at https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-vsphere. ([#122937](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122937), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))...

- Introduce a feature gate `DisableCloudProviders` allowing to disable cloud-provider initialization in KAPI, KCM and kubelet.

	}

	return apiErr
}

// getAPIError provides API Error for input API error code.
func getAPIError(code APIErrorCode) APIError {
	if apiErr, ok := errorCodes[code]; ok {
		return apiErr
	}
	return errorCodes.ToAPIErr(ErrInternalError)
}

// getAPIErrorResponse gets in standard error and resource value and
// provides a encodable populated response values

* 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))