1.28: housekeeping tasks

[pacoxu]

This is a tracking issue for tasks that we are required to carry out during each cycle. It tracks the upcoming release of Kubernetes 1.28 (1.x)

Note: make sure you reference this issue in PRs.

same issue for 1.x-1 (see example PRs): #2694

When 1.x-4 version goes out of support https://kubernetes.io/releases/#release-history

• Drop kinder support for 1.x-4 and older (may not be needed every release)

• Cleanup E2E jobs for 1.x-4 (requires two PRs)
  set KUBERNETES_VERSION to 1.x-1 and KUBERNETES_SKEW to 3 in /kinder/hack/update-workflows.sh
  make sure PATH_TEST_INFRA points to the right path.
  run the script and send two PRs for k/kubeadm and k/test-infra.
  See KEP-3935: Generate test configurations for n-3 node skew #2855

• Vendor the latest system-validators in kubernetes/kubernetes (may not be needed every release)
  When the release-1.x branch and release-1.x test dashboards are created

• Create E2E jobs for 1.x
  set KUBERNETES_VERSION to 1.x and KUBERNETES_SKEW to 3 in /kinder/hack/update-workflows.sh
  make sure PATH_TEST_INFRA points to the right path.
  run the script and send two PRs for k/kubeadm and k/test-infra.
  kinder: add test workflows for 1.28 #2906
  Kubeadm: add kinder test job for k8s 1.28 test-infra#30149

Before the 1.x+1 cycle start

• Duplicate this issue for tracking 1.x+1 housekeeping tasks
• Close this issue

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I think we can close this now, new tasks has been created for 1.29.

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@chendave: Closing this issue.

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I think we can close this now, new tasks has been created for 1.29.

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