globalObjectAPI = objLayer
	globalObjLayerMutex.Unlock()

	// When cache is enabled, Put and Get operations are passed
	// to underlying cache layer to manage object layer operation and disk caching
	// operation
	api := objectAPIHandlers{
		ObjectAPI: func() ObjectLayer {
			return globalObjectAPI
		},
	}

	// Register ListBuckets	handler.

* Allows kubectl to use http caching mechanism for the OpenAPI schema. The cache directory can be configured through `--cache-dir` command line flag to kubectl. If set to empty string, caching will be disabled. ([#50404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50404), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

#### kube-apiserver:
- in an `--encryption-provider-config` config file, an explicit `cacheSize: 0` parameter previously silently defaulted to caching 1000 keys. In Kubernetes 1.18, this now returns a config validation error. To disable caching, you can specify a negative cacheSize value in Kubernetes 1.18+.

### Bug or Regression

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

_endpoint_context_cache: dict[int, EndpointContext] = {}


def _extract_endpoint_context(func: Any) -> EndpointContext:
    """Extract endpoint context with caching to avoid repeated file I/O."""
    func_id = id(func)

    if func_id in _endpoint_context_cache:
        return _endpoint_context_cache[func_id]

    try:
        ctx: EndpointContext = {}

- Kube-apiserver: Get, GetList and Watch requests that should be served by the apiserver cacher during shutdown will be rejected to avoid a deadlock situation leaving requests hanging. ([#108414](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108414), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

  }

  /**
   * Returns the specified comparator if not null; otherwise returns {@code Ordering.natural()}.
   * This method is an abomination of generics; the only purpose of this method is to contain the
   * ugly type-casting in one place.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  static <E extends @Nullable Object> Comparator<? super E> orNaturalOrder(
      @Nullable Comparator<? super E> comparator) {

  }

  /**
   * Returns the specified comparator if not null; otherwise returns {@code Ordering.natural()}.
   * This method is an abomination of generics; the only purpose of this method is to contain the
   * ugly type-casting in one place.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  static <E extends @Nullable Object> Comparator<? super E> orNaturalOrder(
      @Nullable Comparator<? super E> comparator) {

- Kube-apiserver: Added support for disabling caching of authorization webhook decisions in the `--authorization-config` file. The new fields `cacheAuthorizedRequests` and `cacheUnauthorizedRequests` could be set to `false` to prevent caching for authorized or unauthorized requests. See the https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authorization/#using-configuration-file-for-authorization...

* The AWS credential provider can now obtain ECR credentials even without the AWS cloud provider or being on an EC2 instance. Additionally, AWS credential provider caching has been improved to honor the ECR credential timeout. ([#75587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75587), [@tiffanyfay](https://github.com/tiffanyfay))