Feature Gates (removed)

This page contains list of feature gates that have been removed. The information on this page is for reference. A removed feature gate is different from a GA'ed or deprecated one in that a removed one is no longer recognized as a valid feature gate. However, a GA'ed or a deprecated feature gate is still recognized by the corresponding Kubernetes components although they are unable to cause any behavior differences in a cluster.

For feature gates that are still recognized by the Kubernetes components, please refer to the Alpha/Beta feature gate table or the Graduated/Deprecated feature gate table

Feature gates that are removed

In the following table:

The "From" column contains the Kubernetes release when a feature is introduced or its release stage is changed.
The "To" column, if not empty, contains the last Kubernetes release in which you can still use a feature gate. If the feature stage is either "Deprecated" or "GA", the "To" column is the Kubernetes release when the feature is removed.

Feature Gates Removed
Feature	Default	Stage	From	To
`Accelerators`	`false`	Alpha	1.6	1.10
`Accelerators`	–	Deprecated	1.11	1.11
`AdvancedAuditing`	`false`	Alpha	1.7	1.7
`AdvancedAuditing`	`true`	Beta	1.8	1.11
`AdvancedAuditing`	`true`	GA	1.12	1.27
`AffinityInAnnotations`	`false`	Alpha	1.6	1.7
`AffinityInAnnotations`	–	Deprecated	1.8	1.8
`AllowExtTrafficLocalEndpoints`	`false`	Beta	1.4	1.6
`AllowExtTrafficLocalEndpoints`	`true`	GA	1.7	1.9
`AllowInsecureBackendProxy`	`true`	Beta	1.17	1.20
`AllowInsecureBackendProxy`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.25
`APIPriorityAndFairness`	`false`	Alpha	1.18	1.19
`APIPriorityAndFairness`	`true`	Beta	1.20	1.28
`APIPriorityAndFairness`	`true`	GA	1.29	1.30
`APISelfSubjectReview`	`false`	Alpha	1.26	1.26
`APISelfSubjectReview`	`true`	Beta	1.27	1.27
`APISelfSubjectReview`	`true`	GA	1.28	1.29
`AttachVolumeLimit`	`false`	Alpha	1.11	1.11
`AttachVolumeLimit`	`true`	Beta	1.12	1.16
`AttachVolumeLimit`	`true`	GA	1.17	1.21
`BalanceAttachedNodeVolumes`	`false`	Alpha	1.11	1.21
`BalanceAttachedNodeVolumes`	`false`	Deprecated	1.22	1.22
`BlockVolume`	`false`	Alpha	1.9	1.12
`BlockVolume`	`true`	Beta	1.13	1.17
`BlockVolume`	`true`	GA	1.18	1.21
`BoundServiceAccountTokenVolume`	`false`	Alpha	1.13	1.20
`BoundServiceAccountTokenVolume`	`true`	Beta	1.21	1.21
`BoundServiceAccountTokenVolume`	`true`	GA	1.22	1.23
`ConfigurableFSGroupPolicy`	`false`	Alpha	1.18	1.19
`ConfigurableFSGroupPolicy`	`true`	Beta	1.20	1.22
`ConfigurableFSGroupPolicy`	`true`	GA	1.23	1.25
`ConsistentHTTPGetHandlers`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.30
`ControllerManagerLeaderMigration`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`ControllerManagerLeaderMigration`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.23
`ControllerManagerLeaderMigration`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.26
`CRIContainerLogRotation`	`false`	Alpha	1.10	1.10
`CRIContainerLogRotation`	`true`	Beta	1.11	1.20
`CRIContainerLogRotation`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.22
`CronJobControllerV2`	`false`	Alpha	1.20	1.20
`CronJobControllerV2`	`true`	Beta	1.21	1.21
`CronJobControllerV2`	`true`	GA	1.22	1.23
`CronJobTimeZone`	`false`	Alpha	1.24	1.24
`CronJobTimeZone`	`true`	Beta	1.25	1.26
`CronJobTimeZone`	`true`	GA	1.27	1.28
`CSIBlockVolume`	`false`	Alpha	1.11	1.13
`CSIBlockVolume`	`true`	Beta	1.14	1.17
`CSIBlockVolume`	`true`	GA	1.18	1.21
`CSIDriverRegistry`	`false`	Alpha	1.12	1.13
`CSIDriverRegistry`	`true`	Beta	1.14	1.17
`CSIDriverRegistry`	`true`	GA	1.18	1.21
`CSIInlineVolume`	`false`	Alpha	1.15	1.15
`CSIInlineVolume`	`true`	Beta	1.16	1.24
`CSIInlineVolume`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.26
`CSIMigration`	`false`	Alpha	1.14	1.16
`CSIMigration`	`true`	Beta	1.17	1.24
`CSIMigration`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.26
`CSIMigrationAWS`	`false`	Alpha	1.14	1.16
`CSIMigrationAWS`	`false`	Beta	1.17	1.22
`CSIMigrationAWS`	`true`	Beta	1.23	1.24
`CSIMigrationAWS`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.26
`CSIMigrationAWSComplete`	`false`	Alpha	1.17	1.20
`CSIMigrationAWSComplete`	–	Deprecated	1.21	1.21
`CSIMigrationAzureDisk`	`false`	Alpha	1.15	1.18
`CSIMigrationAzureDisk`	`false`	Beta	1.19	1.22
`CSIMigrationAzureDisk`	`true`	Beta	1.23	1.23
`CSIMigrationAzureDisk`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.26
`CSIMigrationAzureDiskComplete`	`false`	Alpha	1.17	1.20
`CSIMigrationAzureDiskComplete`	–	Deprecated	1.21	1.21
`CSIMigrationAzureFile`	`false`	Alpha	1.15	1.20
`CSIMigrationAzureFile`	`false`	Beta	1.21	1.23
`CSIMigrationAzureFile`	`true`	Beta	1.24	1.25
`CSIMigrationAzureFile`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.29
`CSIMigrationAzureFileComplete`	`false`	Alpha	1.17	1.20
`CSIMigrationAzureFileComplete`	–	Deprecated	1.21	1.21
`CSIMigrationGCE`	`false`	Alpha	1.14	1.16
`CSIMigrationGCE`	`false`	Beta	1.17	1.22
`CSIMigrationGCE`	`true`	Beta	1.23	1.24
`CSIMigrationGCE`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.27
`CSIMigrationGCEComplete`	`false`	Alpha	1.17	1.20
`CSIMigrationGCEComplete`	–	Deprecated	1.21	1.21
`CSIMigrationOpenStack`	`false`	Alpha	1.14	1.17
`CSIMigrationOpenStack`	`true`	Beta	1.18	1.23
`CSIMigrationOpenStack`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`CSIMigrationOpenStackComplete`	`false`	Alpha	1.17	1.20
`CSIMigrationOpenStackComplete`	–	Deprecated	1.21	1.21
`CSIMigrationRBD`	`false`	Alpha	1.23	1.27
`CSIMigrationRBD`	`false`	Deprecated	1.28	1.30
`CSIMigrationvSphere`	`false`	Alpha	1.18	1.18
`CSIMigrationvSphere`	`false`	Beta	1.19	1.24
`CSIMigrationvSphere`	`true`	Beta	1.25	1.25
`CSIMigrationvSphere`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.28
`CSIMigrationvSphereComplete`	`false`	Beta	1.19	1.21
`CSIMigrationvSphereComplete`	–	Deprecated	1.22	1.22
`CSINodeExpandSecret`	`false`	Alpha	1.25	1.26
`CSINodeExpandSecret`	`true`	Beta	1.27	1.28
`CSINodeExpandSecret`	`true`	GA	1.29	1.30
`CSINodeInfo`	`false`	Alpha	1.12	1.13
`CSINodeInfo`	`true`	Beta	1.14	1.16
`CSINodeInfo`	`true`	GA	1.17	1.22
`CSIPersistentVolume`	`false`	Alpha	1.9	1.9
`CSIPersistentVolume`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.12
`CSIPersistentVolume`	`true`	GA	1.13	1.16
`CSIServiceAccountToken`	`false`	Alpha	1.20	1.20
`CSIServiceAccountToken`	`true`	Beta	1.21	1.21
`CSIServiceAccountToken`	`true`	GA	1.22	1.24
`CSIStorageCapacity`	`false`	Alpha	1.19	1.20
`CSIStorageCapacity`	`true`	Beta	1.21	1.23
`CSIStorageCapacity`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.27
`CSIVolumeFSGroupPolicy`	`false`	Alpha	1.19	1.19
`CSIVolumeFSGroupPolicy`	`true`	Beta	1.20	1.22
`CSIVolumeFSGroupPolicy`	`true`	GA	1.23	1.25
`CSRDuration`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.23
`CSRDuration`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`CustomPodDNS`	`false`	Alpha	1.9	1.9
`CustomPodDNS`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.13
`CustomPodDNS`	`true`	GA	1.14	1.16
`CustomResourceDefaulting`	`false`	Alpha	1.15	1.15
`CustomResourceDefaulting`	`true`	Beta	1.16	1.16
`CustomResourceDefaulting`	`true`	GA	1.17	1.18
`CustomResourcePublishOpenAPI`	`false`	Alpha	1.14	1.14
`CustomResourcePublishOpenAPI`	`true`	Beta	1.15	1.15
`CustomResourcePublishOpenAPI`	`true`	GA	1.16	1.18
`CustomResourceSubresources`	`false`	Alpha	1.10	1.10
`CustomResourceSubresources`	`true`	Beta	1.11	1.15
`CustomResourceSubresources`	`true`	GA	1.16	1.18
`CustomResourceValidation`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.8
`CustomResourceValidation`	`true`	Beta	1.9	1.15
`CustomResourceValidation`	`true`	GA	1.16	1.18
`CustomResourceValidationExpressions`	`false`	Alpha	1.23	1.24
`CustomResourceValidationExpressions`	`true`	Beta	1.25	1.28
`CustomResourceValidationExpressions`	`true`	GA	1.29	1.30
`CustomResourceWebhookConversion`	`false`	Alpha	1.13	1.14
`CustomResourceWebhookConversion`	`true`	Beta	1.15	1.15
`CustomResourceWebhookConversion`	`true`	GA	1.16	1.18
`DaemonSetUpdateSurge`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`DaemonSetUpdateSurge`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.24
`DaemonSetUpdateSurge`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.28
`DefaultPodTopologySpread`	`false`	Alpha	1.19	1.19
`DefaultPodTopologySpread`	`true`	Beta	1.20	1.23
`DefaultPodTopologySpread`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`DelegateFSGroupToCSIDriver`	`false`	Alpha	1.22	1.22
`DelegateFSGroupToCSIDriver`	`true`	Beta	1.23	1.25
`DelegateFSGroupToCSIDriver`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.27
`DevicePlugins`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.9
`DevicePlugins`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.25
`DevicePlugins`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.27
`DisableAcceleratorUsageMetrics`	`false`	Alpha	1.19	1.19
`DisableAcceleratorUsageMetrics`	`true`	Beta	1.20	1.24
`DisableAcceleratorUsageMetrics`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.27
`DownwardAPIHugePages`	`false`	Alpha	1.20	1.20
`DownwardAPIHugePages`	`false`	Beta	1.21	1.21
`DownwardAPIHugePages`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.26
`DownwardAPIHugePages`	`true`	GA	1.27	1.28
`DryRun`	`false`	Alpha	1.12	1.12
`DryRun`	`true`	Beta	1.13	1.18
`DryRun`	`true`	GA	1.19	1.27
`DynamicAuditing`	`false`	Alpha	1.13	1.18
`DynamicAuditing`	–	Deprecated	1.19	1.19
`DynamicKubeletConfig`	`false`	Alpha	1.4	1.10
`DynamicKubeletConfig`	`true`	Beta	1.11	1.21
`DynamicKubeletConfig`	`false`	Deprecated	1.22	1.25
`DynamicProvisioningScheduling`	`false`	Alpha	1.11	1.11
`DynamicProvisioningScheduling`	–	Deprecated	1.12	–
`DynamicVolumeProvisioning`	`true`	Alpha	1.3	1.7
`DynamicVolumeProvisioning`	`true`	GA	1.8	1.12
`EnableAggregatedDiscoveryTimeout`	`true`	Deprecated	1.16	1.17
`EnableEquivalenceClassCache`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.12
`EnableEquivalenceClassCache`	–	Deprecated	1.13	1.23
`EndpointSlice`	`false`	Alpha	1.16	1.16
`EndpointSlice`	`false`	Beta	1.17	1.17
`EndpointSlice`	`true`	Beta	1.18	1.20
`EndpointSlice`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.24
`EndpointSliceNodeName`	`false`	Alpha	1.20	1.20
`EndpointSliceNodeName`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.24
`EndpointSliceProxying`	`false`	Alpha	1.18	1.18
`EndpointSliceProxying`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.21
`EndpointSliceProxying`	`true`	GA	1.22	1.24
`EndpointSliceTerminatingCondition`	`false`	Alpha	1.20	1.21
`EndpointSliceTerminatingCondition`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.25
`EndpointSliceTerminatingCondition`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.27
`EphemeralContainers`	`false`	Alpha	1.16	1.22
`EphemeralContainers`	`true`	Beta	1.23	1.24
`EphemeralContainers`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.26
`EvenPodsSpread`	`false`	Alpha	1.16	1.17
`EvenPodsSpread`	`true`	Beta	1.18	1.18
`EvenPodsSpread`	`true`	GA	1.19	1.21
`ExpandCSIVolumes`	`false`	Alpha	1.14	1.15
`ExpandCSIVolumes`	`true`	Beta	1.16	1.23
`ExpandCSIVolumes`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.26
`ExpandedDNSConfig`	`false`	Alpha	1.22	1.25
`ExpandedDNSConfig`	`true`	Beta	1.26	1.27
`ExpandedDNSConfig`	`true`	GA	1.28	1.29
`ExpandInUsePersistentVolumes`	`false`	Alpha	1.11	1.14
`ExpandInUsePersistentVolumes`	`true`	Beta	1.15	1.23
`ExpandInUsePersistentVolumes`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.26
`ExpandPersistentVolumes`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.10
`ExpandPersistentVolumes`	`true`	Beta	1.11	1.23
`ExpandPersistentVolumes`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.26
`ExperimentalCriticalPodAnnotation`	`false`	Alpha	1.5	1.12
`ExperimentalCriticalPodAnnotation`	`false`	Deprecated	1.13	1.16
`ExperimentalHostUserNamespaceDefaulting`	`false`	Beta	1.5	1.27
`ExperimentalHostUserNamespaceDefaulting`	`false`	Deprecated	1.28	1.29
`ExternalPolicyForExternalIP`	`true`	GA	1.18	1.22
`GCERegionalPersistentDisk`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.12
`GCERegionalPersistentDisk`	`true`	GA	1.13	1.16
`GenericEphemeralVolume`	`false`	Alpha	1.19	1.20
`GenericEphemeralVolume`	`true`	Beta	1.21	1.22
`GenericEphemeralVolume`	`true`	GA	1.23	1.24
`GRPCContainerProbe`	`false`	Alpha	1.23	1.23
`GRPCContainerProbe`	`true`	Beta	1.24	1.26
`GRPCContainerProbe`	`true`	GA	1.27	1.28
`HugePages`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.9
`HugePages`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.13
`HugePages`	`true`	GA	1.14	1.16
`HugePageStorageMediumSize`	`false`	Alpha	1.18	1.18
`HugePageStorageMediumSize`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.21
`HugePageStorageMediumSize`	`true`	GA	1.22	1.24
`HyperVContainer`	`false`	Alpha	1.10	1.19
`HyperVContainer`	`false`	Deprecated	1.20	1.20
`IdentifyPodOS`	`false`	Alpha	1.23	1.23
`IdentifyPodOS`	`true`	Beta	1.24	1.24
`IdentifyPodOS`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.26
`ImmutableEphemeralVolumes`	`false`	Alpha	1.18	1.18
`ImmutableEphemeralVolumes`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.20
`ImmutableEphemeralVolumes`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.24
`IndexedJob`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`IndexedJob`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.23
`IndexedJob`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`IngressClassNamespacedParams`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`IngressClassNamespacedParams`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.22
`IngressClassNamespacedParams`	`true`	GA	1.23	1.24
`Initializers`	`false`	Alpha	1.7	1.13
`Initializers`	–	Deprecated	1.14	1.14
`InTreePluginAWSUnregister`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.30
`InTreePluginAzureDiskUnregister`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.30
`InTreePluginAzureFileUnregister`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.30
`InTreePluginGCEUnregister`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.30
`InTreePluginOpenStackUnregister`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.30
`InTreePluginRBDUnregister`	`false`	Alpha	1.23	1.27
`InTreePluginRBDUnregister`	`false`	Deprecated	1.28	1.30
`InTreePluginvSphereUnregister`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.30
`IPTablesOwnershipCleanup`	`false`	Alpha	1.25	1.26
`IPTablesOwnershipCleanup`	`true`	Beta	1.27	1.27
`IPTablesOwnershipCleanup`	`true`	GA	1.28	1.29
`IPv6DualStack`	`false`	Alpha	1.15	1.20
`IPv6DualStack`	`true`	Beta	1.21	1.22
`IPv6DualStack`	`true`	GA	1.23	1.24
`JobMutableNodeSchedulingDirectives`	`true`	Beta	1.23	1.26
`JobMutableNodeSchedulingDirectives`	`true`	GA	1.27	1.28
`JobReadyPods`	`false`	Alpha	1.23	1.23
`JobReadyPods`	`true`	Beta	1.24	1.28
`JobReadyPods`	`true`	GA	1.29	1.30
`JobTrackingWithFinalizers`	`false`	Alpha	1.22	1.22
`JobTrackingWithFinalizers`	`false`	Beta	1.23	1.24
`JobTrackingWithFinalizers`	`true`	Beta	1.25	1.25
`JobTrackingWithFinalizers`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.28
`KubeletConfigFile`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.9
`KubeletConfigFile`	–	Deprecated	1.10	1.10
`KubeletCredentialProviders`	`false`	Alpha	1.20	1.23
`KubeletCredentialProviders`	`true`	Beta	1.24	1.25
`KubeletCredentialProviders`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.28
`KubeletPluginsWatcher`	`false`	Alpha	1.11	1.11
`KubeletPluginsWatcher`	`true`	Beta	1.12	1.12
`KubeletPluginsWatcher`	`true`	GA	1.13	1.16
`KubeletPodResources`	`false`	Alpha	1.13	1.14
`KubeletPodResources`	`true`	Beta	1.15	1.27
`KubeletPodResources`	`true`	GA	1.28	1.29
`KubeletPodResourcesGetAllocatable`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.22
`KubeletPodResourcesGetAllocatable`	`true`	Beta	1.23	1.27
`KubeletPodResourcesGetAllocatable`	`true`	GA	1.28	1.29
`LegacyNodeRoleBehavior`	`false`	Alpha	1.16	1.18
`LegacyNodeRoleBehavior`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.20
`LegacyNodeRoleBehavior`	`false`	GA	1.21	1.22
`LegacyServiceAccountTokenNoAutoGeneration`	`true`	Beta	1.24	1.25
`LegacyServiceAccountTokenNoAutoGeneration`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.28
`LegacyServiceAccountTokenTracking`	`false`	Alpha	1.26	1.26
`LegacyServiceAccountTokenTracking`	`true`	Beta	1.27	1.27
`LegacyServiceAccountTokenTracking`	`true`	GA	1.28	1.29
`LocalStorageCapacityIsolation`	`false`	Alpha	1.7	1.9
`LocalStorageCapacityIsolation`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.24
`LocalStorageCapacityIsolation`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.26
`MinimizeIPTablesRestore`	`false`	Alpha	1.26	1.26
`MinimizeIPTablesRestore`	`true`	Beta	1.27	1.27
`MinimizeIPTablesRestore`	`true`	GA	1.28	1.29
`MixedProtocolLBService`	`false`	Alpha	1.20	1.23
`MixedProtocolLBService`	`true`	Beta	1.24	1.25
`MixedProtocolLBService`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.27
`MountContainers`	`false`	Alpha	1.9	1.16
`MountContainers`	`false`	Deprecated	1.17	1.17
`MountPropagation`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.9
`MountPropagation`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.11
`MountPropagation`	`true`	GA	1.12	1.14
`MultiCIDRRangeAllocator`	`false`	Alpha	1.25	1.28
`NamespaceDefaultLabelName`	`true`	Beta	1.21	1.21
`NamespaceDefaultLabelName`	`true`	GA	1.22	1.23
`NetworkPolicyEndPort`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`NetworkPolicyEndPort`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.24
`NetworkPolicyEndPort`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.26
`NetworkPolicyStatus`	`false`	Alpha	1.24	1.27
`NodeDisruptionExclusion`	`false`	Alpha	1.16	1.18
`NodeDisruptionExclusion`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.20
`NodeDisruptionExclusion`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.22
`NodeLease`	`false`	Alpha	1.12	1.13
`NodeLease`	`true`	Beta	1.14	1.16
`NodeLease`	`true`	GA	1.17	1.23
`NonPreemptingPriority`	`false`	Alpha	1.15	1.18
`NonPreemptingPriority`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.23
`NonPreemptingPriority`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`OpenAPIV3`	`false`	Alpha	1.23	1.23
`OpenAPIV3`	`true`	Beta	1.24	1.26
`OpenAPIV3`	`true`	GA	1.27	1.28
`PersistentLocalVolumes`	`false`	Alpha	1.7	1.9
`PersistentLocalVolumes`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.13
`PersistentLocalVolumes`	`true`	GA	1.14	1.16
`PodAffinityNamespaceSelector`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`PodAffinityNamespaceSelector`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.23
`PodAffinityNamespaceSelector`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`PodDisruptionBudget`	`false`	Alpha	1.3	1.4
`PodDisruptionBudget`	`true`	Beta	1.5	1.20
`PodDisruptionBudget`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.25
`PodHasNetworkCondition`	`false`	Alpha	1.25	1.27
`PodOverhead`	`false`	Alpha	1.16	1.17
`PodOverhead`	`true`	Beta	1.18	1.23
`PodOverhead`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`PodPriority`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.10
`PodPriority`	`true`	Beta	1.11	1.13
`PodPriority`	`true`	GA	1.14	1.18
`PodReadinessGates`	`false`	Alpha	1.11	1.11
`PodReadinessGates`	`true`	Beta	1.12	1.13
`PodReadinessGates`	`true`	GA	1.14	1.16
`PodSecurity`	`false`	Alpha	1.22	1.22
`PodSecurity`	`true`	Beta	1.23	1.24
`PodSecurity`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.27
`PodShareProcessNamespace`	`false`	Alpha	1.10	1.11
`PodShareProcessNamespace`	`true`	Beta	1.12	1.16
`PodShareProcessNamespace`	`true`	GA	1.17	1.19
`PreferNominatedNode`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`PreferNominatedNode`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.23
`PreferNominatedNode`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`ProbeTerminationGracePeriod`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`ProbeTerminationGracePeriod`	`false`	Beta	1.22	1.24
`ProbeTerminationGracePeriod`	`true`	Beta	1.25	1.27
`ProbeTerminationGracePeriod`	`true`	GA	1.28	1.28
`ProxyTerminatingEndpoints`	`false`	Alpha	1.22	1.25
`ProxyTerminatingEndpoints`	`true`	Beta	1.26	1.27
`ProxyTerminatingEndpoints`	`true`	GA	1.28	1.29
`PVCProtection`	`false`	Alpha	1.9	1.9
`PVCProtection`	–	Deprecated	1.10	1.10
`ReadOnlyAPIDataVolumes`	`true`	Beta	1.8	1.9
`ReadOnlyAPIDataVolumes`	–	GA	1.10	1.10
`ReadWriteOncePod`	`false`	Alpha	1.22	1.26
`ReadWriteOncePod`	`true`	Beta	1.27	1.28
`ReadWriteOncePod`	`true`	GA	1.29	1.30
`RemoveSelfLink`	`false`	Alpha	1.16	1.19
`RemoveSelfLink`	`true`	Beta	1.20	1.23
`RemoveSelfLink`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.29
`RequestManagement`	`false`	Alpha	1.15	1.16
`RequestManagement`	–	Deprecated	1.17	1.17
`ResourceLimitsPriorityFunction`	`false`	Alpha	1.9	1.18
`ResourceLimitsPriorityFunction`	–	Deprecated	1.19	1.19
`ResourceQuotaScopeSelectors`	`false`	Alpha	1.11	1.11
`ResourceQuotaScopeSelectors`	`true`	Beta	1.12	1.16
`ResourceQuotaScopeSelectors`	`true`	GA	1.17	1.18
`RetroactiveDefaultStorageClass`	`false`	Alpha	1.25	1.25
`RetroactiveDefaultStorageClass`	`true`	Beta	1.26	1.27
`RetroactiveDefaultStorageClass`	`true`	GA	1.28	1.28
`RootCAConfigMap`	`false`	Alpha	1.13	1.19
`RootCAConfigMap`	`true`	Beta	1.20	1.20
`RootCAConfigMap`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.22
`RotateKubeletClientCertificate`	`true`	Beta	1.8	1.18
`RotateKubeletClientCertificate`	`true`	GA	1.19	1.21
`RunAsGroup`	`true`	Beta	1.14	1.20
`RunAsGroup`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.22
`RuntimeClass`	`false`	Alpha	1.12	1.13
`RuntimeClass`	`true`	Beta	1.14	1.19
`RuntimeClass`	`true`	GA	1.20	1.24
`ScheduleDaemonSetPods`	`false`	Alpha	1.11	1.11
`ScheduleDaemonSetPods`	`true`	Beta	1.12	1.16
`ScheduleDaemonSetPods`	`true`	GA	1.17	1.18
`SCTPSupport`	`false`	Alpha	1.12	1.18
`SCTPSupport`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.19
`SCTPSupport`	`true`	GA	1.20	1.22
`SeccompDefault`	`false`	Alpha	1.22	1.24
`SeccompDefault`	`true`	Beta	1.25	1.26
`SeccompDefault`	`true`	GA	1.27	1.28
`SecurityContextDeny`	`false`	Alpha	1.27	1.29
`SelectorIndex`	`false`	Alpha	1.18	1.18
`SelectorIndex`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.19
`SelectorIndex`	`true`	GA	1.20	1.25
`ServiceAccountIssuerDiscovery`	`false`	Alpha	1.18	1.19
`ServiceAccountIssuerDiscovery`	`true`	Beta	1.20	1.20
`ServiceAccountIssuerDiscovery`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.23
`ServiceAppProtocol`	`false`	Alpha	1.18	1.18
`ServiceAppProtocol`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.19
`ServiceAppProtocol`	`true`	GA	1.20	1.22
`ServiceInternalTrafficPolicy`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`ServiceInternalTrafficPolicy`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.25
`ServiceInternalTrafficPolicy`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.27
`ServiceIPStaticSubrange`	`false`	Alpha	1.24	1.24
`ServiceIPStaticSubrange`	`true`	Beta	1.25	1.25
`ServiceIPStaticSubrange`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.27
`ServiceLBNodePortControl`	`false`	Alpha	1.20	1.21
`ServiceLBNodePortControl`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.23
`ServiceLBNodePortControl`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`ServiceLoadBalancerClass`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`ServiceLoadBalancerClass`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.23
`ServiceLoadBalancerClass`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`ServiceLoadBalancerFinalizer`	`false`	Alpha	1.15	1.15
`ServiceLoadBalancerFinalizer`	`true`	Beta	1.16	1.16
`ServiceLoadBalancerFinalizer`	`true`	GA	1.17	1.20
`ServiceNodeExclusion`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.18
`ServiceNodeExclusion`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.20
`ServiceNodeExclusion`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.22
`ServiceNodePortStaticSubrange`	`false`	Alpha	1.27	1.27
`ServiceNodePortStaticSubrange`	`true`	Beta	1.28	1.28
`ServiceNodePortStaticSubrange`	`true`	GA	1.29	1.30
`ServiceTopology`	`false`	Alpha	1.17	1.19
`ServiceTopology`	`false`	Deprecated	1.20	1.22
`SetHostnameAsFQDN`	`false`	Alpha	1.19	1.19
`SetHostnameAsFQDN`	`true`	Beta	1.20	1.21
`SetHostnameAsFQDN`	`true`	GA	1.22	1.24
`SkipReadOnlyValidationGCE`	`false`	Alpha	1.28	1.28
`SkipReadOnlyValidationGCE`	`true`	Deprecated	1.29	1.30
`StartupProbe`	`false`	Alpha	1.16	1.17
`StartupProbe`	`true`	Beta	1.18	1.19
`StartupProbe`	`true`	GA	1.20	1.23
`StatefulSetMinReadySeconds`	`false`	Alpha	1.22	1.22
`StatefulSetMinReadySeconds`	`true`	Beta	1.23	1.24
`StatefulSetMinReadySeconds`	`true`	GA	1.25	1.26
`StorageObjectInUseProtection`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.10
`StorageObjectInUseProtection`	`true`	GA	1.11	1.24
`StreamingProxyRedirects`	`false`	Beta	1.5	1.5
`StreamingProxyRedirects`	`true`	Beta	1.6	1.17
`StreamingProxyRedirects`	`true`	Deprecated	1.18	1.21
`StreamingProxyRedirects`	`false`	Deprecated	1.22	1.24
`SupportIPVSProxyMode`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.8
`SupportIPVSProxyMode`	`false`	Beta	1.9	1.9
`SupportIPVSProxyMode`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.10
`SupportIPVSProxyMode`	`true`	GA	1.11	1.20
`SupportNodePidsLimit`	`false`	Alpha	1.14	1.14
`SupportNodePidsLimit`	`true`	Beta	1.15	1.19
`SupportNodePidsLimit`	`true`	GA	1.20	1.23
`SupportPodPidsLimit`	`false`	Alpha	1.10	1.13
`SupportPodPidsLimit`	`true`	Beta	1.14	1.19
`SupportPodPidsLimit`	`true`	GA	1.20	1.23
`SuspendJob`	`false`	Alpha	1.21	1.21
`SuspendJob`	`true`	Beta	1.22	1.23
`SuspendJob`	`true`	GA	1.24	1.25
`Sysctls`	`true`	Beta	1.11	1.20
`Sysctls`	`true`	GA	1.21	1.22
`TaintBasedEvictions`	`false`	Alpha	1.6	1.12
`TaintBasedEvictions`	`true`	Beta	1.13	1.17
`TaintBasedEvictions`	`true`	GA	1.18	1.20
`TaintNodesByCondition`	`false`	Alpha	1.8	1.11
`TaintNodesByCondition`	`true`	Beta	1.12	1.16
`TaintNodesByCondition`	`true`	GA	1.17	1.18
`TokenRequest`	`false`	Alpha	1.10	1.11
`TokenRequest`	`true`	Beta	1.12	1.19
`TokenRequest`	`true`	GA	1.20	1.21
`TokenRequestProjection`	`false`	Alpha	1.11	1.11
`TokenRequestProjection`	`true`	Beta	1.12	1.19
`TokenRequestProjection`	`true`	GA	1.20	1.21
`TopologyManager`	`false`	Alpha	1.16	1.17
`TopologyManager`	`true`	Beta	1.18	1.26
`TopologyManager`	`true`	GA	1.27	1.28
`TTLAfterFinished`	`false`	Alpha	1.12	1.20
`TTLAfterFinished`	`true`	Beta	1.21	1.22
`TTLAfterFinished`	`true`	GA	1.23	1.24
`UserNamespacesStatelessPodsSupport`	`false`	Alpha	1.25	1.27
`ValidateProxyRedirects`	`false`	Alpha	1.12	1.13
`ValidateProxyRedirects`	`true`	Beta	1.14	1.21
`ValidateProxyRedirects`	`true`	Deprecated	1.22	1.24
`VolumePVCDataSource`	`false`	Alpha	1.15	1.15
`VolumePVCDataSource`	`true`	Beta	1.16	1.17
`VolumePVCDataSource`	`true`	GA	1.18	1.21
`VolumeScheduling`	`false`	Alpha	1.9	1.9
`VolumeScheduling`	`true`	Beta	1.10	1.12
`VolumeScheduling`	`true`	GA	1.13	1.16
`VolumeSnapshotDataSource`	`false`	Alpha	1.12	1.16
`VolumeSnapshotDataSource`	`true`	Beta	1.17	1.19
`VolumeSnapshotDataSource`	`true`	GA	1.20	1.22
`VolumeSubpath`	`true`	GA	1.10	1.24
`VolumeSubpathEnvExpansion`	`false`	Alpha	1.14	1.14
`VolumeSubpathEnvExpansion`	`true`	Beta	1.15	1.16
`VolumeSubpathEnvExpansion`	`true`	GA	1.17	1.24
`WarningHeaders`	`true`	Beta	1.19	1.21
`WarningHeaders`	`true`	GA	1.22	1.24
`WindowsEndpointSliceProxying`	`false`	Alpha	1.19	1.20
`WindowsEndpointSliceProxying`	`true`	Beta	1.21	1.21
`WindowsEndpointSliceProxying`	`true`	GA	1.22	1.24
`WindowsGMSA`	`false`	Alpha	1.14	1.15
`WindowsGMSA`	`true`	Beta	1.16	1.17
`WindowsGMSA`	`true`	GA	1.18	1.20
`WindowsHostProcessContainers`	`false`	Alpha	1.22	1.22
`WindowsHostProcessContainers`	`true`	Beta	1.23	1.25
`WindowsHostProcessContainers`	`true`	GA	1.26	1.27
`WindowsRunAsUserName`	`false`	Alpha	1.16	1.16
`WindowsRunAsUserName`	`true`	Beta	1.17	1.17
`WindowsRunAsUserName`	`true`	GA	1.18	1.20

Descriptions for removed feature gates

Accelerators: Provided an early form of plugin to enable Nvidia GPU support when using Docker Engine; no longer available. See Device Plugins for an alternative.
AdvancedAuditing: Enable advanced auditing
AffinityInAnnotations: Enable setting Pod affinity or anti-affinity.
AllowExtTrafficLocalEndpoints: Enable a service to route external requests to node local endpoints.
AllowInsecureBackendProxy: Enable the users to skip TLS verification of kubelets on Pod log requests.
APIPriorityAndFairness: Enable managing request concurrency with prioritization and fairness at each server. (Renamed from RequestManagement)
APISelfSubjectReview: Activate the SelfSubjectReview API which allows users to see the requesting subject's authentication information. See API access to authentication information for a client for more details.
AttachVolumeLimit: Enable volume plugins to report limits on number of volumes that can be attached to a node. See dynamic volume limits for more details.
BalanceAttachedNodeVolumes: Include volume count on node to be considered for balanced resource allocation while scheduling. A node which has closer CPU, memory utilization, and volume count is favored by the scheduler while making decisions.
BlockVolume: Enable the definition and consumption of raw block devices in Pods. See Raw Block Volume Support for more details.
BoundServiceAccountTokenVolume:
Migrate ServiceAccount volumes to use a projected volume consisting of a ServiceAccountTokenVolumeProjection. Cluster admins can use metric serviceaccount_stale_tokens_total to monitor workloads that are depending on the extended tokens. If there are no such workloads, turn off extended tokens by starting kube-apiserver with flag --service-account-extend-token-expiration=false.

Check Bound Service Account Tokens for more details.
ConfigurableFSGroupPolicy: Allows user to configure volume permission change policy for fsGroups when mounting a volume in a Pod. See Configure volume permission and ownership change policy for Pods for more details.
ConsistentHTTPGetHandlers: Normalize HTTP get URL and Header passing for lifecycle handlers with probers.
ControllerManagerLeaderMigration: Enables Leader Migration for kube-controller-manager and cloud-controller-manager which allows a cluster operator to live migrate controllers from the kube-controller-manager into an external controller-manager (e.g. the cloud-controller-manager) in an HA cluster without downtime.
CRIContainerLogRotation: Enable container log rotation for CRI container runtime. The default max size of a log file is 10MB and the default max number of log files allowed for a container is 5. These values can be configured in the kubelet config. See logging at node level for more details.
CronJobControllerV2: Use an alternative implementation of the CronJob controller. Otherwise, version 1 of the same controller is selected.
CronJobTimeZone: Allow the use of the timeZone optional field in CronJobs
CSIBlockVolume: Enable external CSI volume drivers to support block storage. See csi raw block volume support for more details.
CSIDriverRegistry: Enable all logic related to the CSIDriver API object in csi.storage.k8s.io.
CSIInlineVolume: Enable CSI Inline volumes support for pods.
CSIMigration: Enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from in-tree plugins to corresponding pre-installed CSI plugins
CSIMigrationAWS: Enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the AWS-EBS in-tree plugin to EBS CSI plugin. Supports falling back to in-tree EBS plugin for mount operations to nodes that have the feature disabled or that do not have EBS CSI plugin installed and configured. Does not support falling back for provision operations, for those the CSI plugin must be installed and configured.
CSIMigrationAWSComplete: Stops registering the EBS in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers and enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the AWS-EBS in-tree plugin to EBS CSI plugin. Requires CSIMigration and CSIMigrationAWS feature flags enabled and EBS CSI plugin installed and configured on all nodes in the cluster. This flag has been deprecated in favor of the InTreePluginAWSUnregister feature flag which prevents the registration of in-tree EBS plugin.
CSIMigrationAzureDisk: Enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the Azure-Disk in-tree plugin to AzureDisk CSI plugin. Supports falling back to in-tree AzureDisk plugin for mount operations to nodes that have the feature disabled or that do not have AzureDisk CSI plugin installed and configured. Does not support falling back for provision operations, for those the CSI plugin must be installed and configured. Requires CSIMigration feature flag enabled.
CSIMigrationAzureDiskComplete: Stops registering the Azure-Disk in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers and enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the Azure-Disk in-tree plugin to AzureDisk CSI plugin. Requires CSIMigration and CSIMigrationAzureDisk feature flags enabled and AzureDisk CSI plugin installed and configured on all nodes in the cluster. This flag has been deprecated in favor of the InTreePluginAzureDiskUnregister feature flag which prevents the registration of in-tree AzureDisk plugin.
CSIMigrationAzureFile: Enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the Azure-File in-tree plugin to AzureFile CSI plugin. Supports falling back to in-tree AzureFile plugin for mount operations to nodes that have the feature disabled or that do not have AzureFile CSI plugin installed and configured. Does not support falling back for provision operations, for those the CSI plugin must be installed and configured. Requires CSIMigration feature flag enabled.
CSIMigrationAzureFileComplete: Stops registering the Azure-File in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers and enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the Azure-File in-tree plugin to AzureFile CSI plugin. Requires CSIMigration and CSIMigrationAzureFile feature flags enabled and AzureFile CSI plugin installed and configured on all nodes in the cluster. This flag has been deprecated in favor of the InTreePluginAzureFileUnregister feature flag which prevents the registration of in-tree AzureFile plugin.
CSIMigrationGCE: Enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the GCE-PD in-tree plugin to PD CSI plugin. Supports falling back to in-tree GCE plugin for mount operations to nodes that have the feature disabled or that do not have PD CSI plugin installed and configured. Does not support falling back for provision operations, for those the CSI plugin must be installed and configured. Requires CSIMigration feature flag enabled.
CSIMigrationGCEComplete: Stops registering the GCE-PD in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers and enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the GCE-PD in-tree plugin to PD CSI plugin. Requires CSIMigration and CSIMigrationGCE feature flags enabled and PD CSI plugin installed and configured on all nodes in the cluster. This flag has been deprecated in favor of the InTreePluginGCEUnregister feature flag which prevents the registration of in-tree GCE PD plugin.
CSIMigrationOpenStack: Enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the Cinder in-tree plugin to Cinder CSI plugin. Supports falling back to in-tree Cinder plugin for mount operations to nodes that have the feature disabled or that do not have Cinder CSI plugin installed and configured. Does not support falling back for provision operations, for those the CSI plugin must be installed and configured. Requires CSIMigration feature flag enabled.
CSIMigrationOpenStackComplete: Stops registering the Cinder in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers and enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the Cinder in-tree plugin to Cinder CSI plugin. Requires CSIMigration and CSIMigrationOpenStack feature flags enabled and Cinder CSI plugin installed and configured on all nodes in the cluster. This flag has been deprecated in favor of the InTreePluginOpenStackUnregister feature flag which prevents the registration of in-tree openstack cinder plugin.
CSIMigrationRBD:
Enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the RBD in-tree plugin to Ceph RBD CSI plugin. Requires CSIMigration and csiMigrationRBD feature flags enabled and Ceph CSI plugin installed and configured in the cluster.

This feature gate was deprecated in favor of the InTreePluginRBDUnregister feature gate, which prevents the registration of in-tree RBD plugin.
CSIMigrationvSphere: Enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the vSphere in-tree plugin to vSphere CSI plugin. Supports falling back to in-tree vSphere plugin for mount operations to nodes that have the feature disabled or that do not have vSphere CSI plugin installed and configured. Does not support falling back for provision operations, for those the CSI plugin must be installed and configured. Requires CSIMigration feature flag enabled.
CSIMigrationvSphereComplete: Stops registering the vSphere in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers and enables shims and translation logic to route volume operations from the vSphere in-tree plugin to vSphere CSI plugin. Requires CSIMigration and CSIMigrationvSphere feature flags enabled and vSphere CSI plugin installed and configured on all nodes in the cluster. This flag has been deprecated in favor of the InTreePluginvSphereUnregister feature flag which prevents the registration of in-tree vsphere plugin.
CSINodeExpandSecret: Enable passing secret authentication data to a CSI driver for use during a NodeExpandVolume CSI operation.
CSINodeInfo: Enable all logic related to the CSINodeInfo API object in csi.storage.k8s.io.
CSIPersistentVolume: Enable discovering and mounting volumes provisioned through a CSI (Container Storage Interface) compatible volume plugin.
CSIServiceAccountToken: Enable CSI drivers to receive the pods' service account token that they mount volumes for. See Token Requests.
CSIStorageCapacity: Enables CSI drivers to publish storage capacity information and the Kubernetes scheduler to use that information when scheduling pods. See Storage Capacity. Check the csi volume type documentation for more details.
CSIVolumeFSGroupPolicy: Allows CSIDrivers to use the fsGroupPolicy field. This field controls whether volumes created by a CSIDriver support volume ownership and permission modifications when these volumes are mounted.
CSRDuration: Allows clients to request a duration for certificates issued via the Kubernetes CSR API.
CustomPodDNS: Enable customizing the DNS settings for a Pod using its dnsConfig property. Check Pod's DNS Config for more details.
CustomResourceDefaulting: Enable CRD support for default values in OpenAPI v3 validation schemas.
CustomResourcePublishOpenAPI: Enables publishing of CRD OpenAPI specs.
CustomResourceSubresources: Enable /status and /scale subresources on resources created from CustomResourceDefinition.
CustomResourceValidation: Enable schema based validation on resources created from CustomResourceDefinition.
CustomResourceValidationExpressions: Enable expression language validation in CRD which will validate customer resource based on validation rules written in the x-kubernetes-validations extension.
CustomResourceWebhookConversion: Enable webhook-based conversion on resources created from CustomResourceDefinition.
DaemonSetUpdateSurge: Enables the DaemonSet workloads to maintain availability during update per node. See Perform a Rolling Update on a DaemonSet.
DefaultPodTopologySpread: Enables the use of PodTopologySpread scheduling plugin to do default spreading.
DelegateFSGroupToCSIDriver: If supported by the CSI driver, delegates the role of applying fsGroup from a Pod's securityContext to the driver by passing fsGroup through the NodeStageVolume and NodePublishVolume CSI calls.
DevicePlugins: Enable the device-plugins based resource provisioning on nodes.
DisableAcceleratorUsageMetrics: Disable accelerator metrics collected by the kubelet.
DownwardAPIHugePages: Enables usage of hugepages in downward API.
DryRun: Enable server-side dry run requests so that validation, merging, and mutation can be tested without committing.
DynamicAuditing: Used to enable dynamic auditing before v1.19.
DynamicKubeletConfig: Enable the dynamic configuration of kubelet. The feature is no longer supported outside of supported skew policy. The feature gate was removed from kubelet in 1.24.
DynamicProvisioningScheduling: Extend the default scheduler to be aware of volume topology and handle PV provisioning. This feature was superseded by the VolumeScheduling feature in v1.12.
DynamicVolumeProvisioning: Enable the dynamic provisioning of persistent volumes to Pods.
EnableAggregatedDiscoveryTimeout: Enable the five second timeout on aggregated discovery calls.
EnableEquivalenceClassCache: Enable the scheduler to cache equivalence of nodes when scheduling Pods.
EndpointSlice: Enables EndpointSlices for more scalable and extensible network endpoints. See Enabling EndpointSlices.
EndpointSliceNodeName: Enables EndpointSlice nodeName field.
EndpointSliceProxying: When enabled, kube-proxy running on Linux will use EndpointSlices as the primary data source instead of Endpoints, enabling scalability and performance improvements. See Enabling Endpoint Slices.
EndpointSliceTerminatingCondition: Enables EndpointSlice terminating and serving condition fields.
EphemeralContainers: Enable the ability to add ephemeral containers to running Pods.
EvenPodsSpread: Enable pods to be scheduled evenly across topology domains. See Pod Topology Spread Constraints.
ExpandCSIVolumes: Enable the expanding of CSI volumes.
ExpandedDNSConfig: Enable kubelet and kube-apiserver to allow more DNS search paths and longer list of DNS search paths. This feature requires container runtime support(Containerd: v1.5.6 or higher, CRI-O: v1.22 or higher). See Expanded DNS Configuration.
ExpandInUsePersistentVolumes: Enable expanding in-use PVCs. See Resizing an in-use PersistentVolumeClaim.
ExpandPersistentVolumes: Enable the expanding of persistent volumes. See Expanding Persistent Volumes Claims.
ExperimentalCriticalPodAnnotation: Enable annotating specific pods as critical so that their scheduling is guaranteed. This feature is deprecated by Pod Priority and Preemption as of v1.13.
ExperimentalHostUserNamespaceDefaulting: Enabling the defaulting user namespace to host. This is for containers that are using other host namespaces, host mounts, or containers that are privileged or using specific non-namespaced capabilities (e.g. MKNODE, SYS_MODULE etc.). This should only be enabled if user namespace remapping is enabled in the Docker daemon.
ExternalPolicyForExternalIP: Fix a bug where ExternalTrafficPolicy is not applied to Service ExternalIPs.
GCERegionalPersistentDisk: Enable the regional PD feature on GCE.
GenericEphemeralVolume: Enables ephemeral, inline volumes that support all features of normal volumes (can be provided by third-party storage vendors, storage capacity tracking, restore from snapshot, etc.). See Ephemeral Volumes.
GRPCContainerProbe: Enables the gRPC probe method for {Liveness,Readiness,Startup}Probe. See Configure Liveness, Readiness and Startup Probes.
HugePages: Enable the allocation and consumption of pre-allocated huge pages.
HugePageStorageMediumSize: Enable support for multiple sizes pre-allocated huge pages.
HyperVContainer: Enable Hyper-V isolation for Windows containers.
IdentifyPodOS: Allows the Pod OS field to be specified. This helps in identifying the OS of the pod authoritatively during the API server admission time.
ImmutableEphemeralVolumes: Allows for marking individual Secrets and ConfigMaps as immutable for better safety and performance.
IndexedJob: Allows the Job controller to manage Pod completions per completion index.
IngressClassNamespacedParams: Allow namespace-scoped parameters reference in IngressClass resource. This feature adds two fields - Scope and Namespace to IngressClass.spec.parameters.
Initializers: Allow asynchronous coordination of object creation using the Initializers admission plugin.
InTreePluginAWSUnregister: Stops registering the aws-ebs in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers.
InTreePluginAzureDiskUnregister: Stops registering the azuredisk in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers.
InTreePluginAzureFileUnregister: Stops registering the azurefile in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers.
InTreePluginGCEUnregister: Stops registering the gce-pd in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers.
InTreePluginOpenStackUnregister: Stops registering the OpenStack cinder in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers.
InTreePluginRBDUnregister: Stops registering the RBD in-tree plugin within kubelet and volume controllers.
InTreePluginvSphereUnregister: Stops registering the vSphere in-tree plugin in kubelet and volume controllers.
IPTablesOwnershipCleanup: This causes kubelet to no longer create legacy iptables rules.
IPv6DualStack: Enable dual stack support for IPv6.
JobMutableNodeSchedulingDirectives: Allows updating node scheduling directives in the pod template of Job.
JobReadyPods: Enables tracking the number of Pods that have a Ready condition. The count of Ready pods is recorded in the status of a Job status.
JobTrackingWithFinalizers: Enables tracking Job completions without relying on Pods remaining in the cluster indefinitely. The Job controller uses Pod finalizers and a field in the Job status to keep track of the finished Pods to count towards completion.
KubeletConfigFile: Enable loading kubelet configuration from a file specified using a config file. See setting kubelet parameters via a config file for more details.
KubeletCredentialProviders: Enable kubelet exec credential providers for image pull credentials.
KubeletPluginsWatcher: Enable probe-based plugin watcher utility to enable kubelet to discover plugins such as CSI volume drivers.
KubeletPodResources: Enable the kubelet's pod resources gRPC endpoint. See Support Device Monitoring for more details.
KubeletPodResourcesGetAllocatable: Enable the kubelet's pod resources GetAllocatableResources functionality. This API augments the resource allocation reporting
LegacyNodeRoleBehavior: When disabled, legacy behavior in service load balancers and node disruption will ignore the node-role.kubernetes.io/master label in favor of the feature-specific labels provided by NodeDisruptionExclusion and ServiceNodeExclusion.
LegacyServiceAccountTokenNoAutoGeneration: Stop auto-generation of Secret-based service account tokens.
LegacyServiceAccountTokenTracking: Track usage of Secret-based service account tokens.
LocalStorageCapacityIsolation: Enable the consumption of local ephemeral storage and also the sizeLimit property of an emptyDir volume.
MinimizeIPTablesRestore: Enables new performance improvement logics in the kube-proxy iptables mode.
MixedProtocolLBService: Enable using different protocols in the same LoadBalancer type Service instance.
MountContainers: Enable using utility containers on host as the volume mounter.
MountPropagation: Enable sharing volume mounted by one container to other containers or pods. For more details, please see mount propagation.
MultiCIDRRangeAllocator: Enables the MultiCIDR range allocator.
NamespaceDefaultLabelName: Configure the API Server to set an immutable label kubernetes.io/metadata.name on all namespaces, containing the namespace name.
NetworkPolicyEndPort: Allows you to define ports in a NetworkPolicy rule as a range of port numbers.
NetworkPolicyStatus: Enable the status subresource for NetworkPolicy objects.
NodeDisruptionExclusion: Enable use of the Node label node.kubernetes.io/exclude-disruption which prevents nodes from being evacuated during zone failures.
NodeLease: Enable the new Lease API to report node heartbeats, which could be used as a node health signal.
NonPreemptingPriority: Enable preemptionPolicy field for PriorityClass and Pod.
OpenAPIV3: Enables the API server to publish OpenAPI v3.
PersistentLocalVolumes: Enable the usage of local volume type in Pods. Pod affinity has to be specified if requesting a local volume.
PodAffinityNamespaceSelector: Enable the Pod Affinity Namespace Selector and CrossNamespacePodAffinity quota scope features.
PodDisruptionBudget: Enable the PodDisruptionBudget feature.
PodHasNetworkCondition: Enable the kubelet to mark the PodHasNetwork condition on pods. This was renamed to PodReadyToStartContainersCondition in 1.28.
PodOverhead: Enable the PodOverhead feature to account for pod overheads.
PodPriority: Enable the descheduling and preemption of Pods based on their priorities.
PodReadinessGates: Enable the setting of PodReadinessGate field for extending Pod readiness evaluation. See Pod readiness gate for more details.
PodSecurity: Enables the PodSecurity admission plugin.
PodShareProcessNamespace: Enable the setting of shareProcessNamespace in a Pod for sharing a single process namespace between containers running in a pod. More details can be found in Share Process Namespace between Containers in a Pod.
PreferNominatedNode: This flag tells the scheduler whether the nominated nodes will be checked first before looping through all the other nodes in the cluster.
ProbeTerminationGracePeriod: Enable setting probe-level terminationGracePeriodSeconds on pods. See the enhancement proposal for more details.
ProxyTerminatingEndpoints: Enable the kube-proxy to handle terminating endpoints when ExternalTrafficPolicy=Local.
PVCProtection: Enable the prevention of a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) from being deleted when it is still used by any Pod.
ReadOnlyAPIDataVolumes:
Set configMap, secret, downwardAPI and projected volumes to be mounted read-only.

Since Kubernetes v1.10, these volume types are always read-only and you cannot opt out.
ReadWriteOncePod: Enables the usage of ReadWriteOncePod PersistentVolume access mode.
RemoveSelfLink: Sets the .metadata.selfLink field to blank (empty string) for all objects and collections. This field has been deprecated since the Kubernetes v1.16 release. When this feature is enabled, the .metadata.selfLink field remains part of the Kubernetes API, but is always unset.
RequestManagement: Enables managing request concurrency with prioritization and fairness at each API server. Deprecated by APIPriorityAndFairness since 1.17.
ResourceLimitsPriorityFunction: Enable a scheduler priority function that assigns a lowest possible score of 1 to a node that satisfies at least one of the input Pod's cpu and memory limits. The intent is to break ties between nodes with same scores.
ResourceQuotaScopeSelectors: Enable resource quota scope selectors.
RetroactiveDefaultStorageClass: Allow assigning StorageClass to unbound PVCs retroactively.
RootCAConfigMap: Configure the kube-controller-manager to publish a ConfigMap named kube-root-ca.crt to every namespace. This ConfigMap contains a CA bundle used for verifying connections to the kube-apiserver. See Bound Service Account Tokens for more details.
RotateKubeletClientCertificate: Enable the rotation of the client TLS certificate on the kubelet. See kubelet configuration for more details.
RunAsGroup: Enable control over the primary group ID set on the init processes of containers.
RuntimeClass: Enable the RuntimeClass feature for selecting container runtime configurations.
ScheduleDaemonSetPods: Enable DaemonSet Pods to be scheduled by the default scheduler instead of the DaemonSet controller.
SCTPSupport: Enables the SCTP protocol value in Pod, Service, Endpoints, EndpointSlice, and NetworkPolicy definitions.
SeccompDefault: Enables the use of RuntimeDefault as the default seccomp profile for all workloads. The seccomp profile is specified in the securityContext of a Pod and/or a Container.
SecurityContextDeny: This gate signals that the SecurityContextDeny admission controller is deprecated.
SelectorIndex: Allows label and field based indexes in API server watch cache to accelerate list operations.
ServiceAccountIssuerDiscovery: Enable OIDC discovery endpoints (issuer and JWKS URLs) for the service account issuer in the API server. See Configure Service Accounts for Pods for more details.
ServiceAppProtocol: Enables the appProtocol field on Services and Endpoints.
ServiceInternalTrafficPolicy: Enables the internalTrafficPolicy field on Services
ServiceIPStaticSubrange: Enables a strategy for Services ClusterIP allocations, whereby the ClusterIP range is subdivided. Dynamic allocated ClusterIP addresses will be allocated preferently from the upper range allowing users to assign static ClusterIPs from the lower range with a low risk of collision. See Avoiding collisions for more details.
ServiceLBNodePortControl: Enables the allocateLoadBalancerNodePorts field on Services.
ServiceLoadBalancerClass: Enables the loadBalancerClass field on Services. See Specifying class of load balancer implementation for more details.
ServiceLoadBalancerFinalizer: Enable finalizer protection for Service load balancers.
ServiceNodeExclusion: Enable the exclusion of nodes from load balancers created by a cloud provider. A node is eligible for exclusion if labelled with "node.kubernetes.io/exclude-from-external-load-balancers".
ServiceNodePortStaticSubrange: Enables the use of different port allocation strategies for NodePort Services. For more details, see reserve NodePort ranges to avoid collisions.
ServiceTopology: Enable service to route traffic based upon the Node topology of the cluster.
SetHostnameAsFQDN: Enable the ability of setting Fully Qualified Domain Name(FQDN) as the hostname of a pod. See Pod's setHostnameAsFQDN field.
SkipReadOnlyValidationGCE: Skip validation that GCE PersistentDisk volumes are in read-only mode.
StartupProbe: Enable the startup probe in the kubelet.
StatefulSetMinReadySeconds: Allows minReadySeconds to be respected by the StatefulSet controller.
StorageObjectInUseProtection: Postpone the deletion of PersistentVolume or PersistentVolumeClaim objects if they are still being used.
StreamingProxyRedirects: Instructs the API server to intercept (and follow) redirects from the backend (kubelet) for streaming requests. Examples of streaming requests include the exec, attach and port-forward requests.
SupportIPVSProxyMode: Enable providing in-cluster service load balancing using IPVS. See service proxies for more details.
SupportNodePidsLimit: Enable the support to limiting PIDs on the Node. The parameter pid=<number> in the --system-reserved and --kube-reserved options can be specified to ensure that the specified number of process IDs will be reserved for the system as a whole and for Kubernetes system daemons respectively.
SupportPodPidsLimit: Enable the support to limiting PIDs in Pods.
SuspendJob: Enable support to suspend and resume Jobs. For more details, see the Jobs docs.
Sysctls: Enable support for namespaced kernel parameters (sysctls) that can be set for each pod. See sysctls for more details.
TaintBasedEvictions: Enable evicting pods from nodes based on taints on Nodes and tolerations on Pods. See taints and tolerations for more details.
TaintNodesByCondition: Enable automatic tainting nodes based on node conditions.
TokenRequest: Enable the TokenRequest endpoint on service account resources.
TokenRequestProjection: Enable the injection of service account tokens into a Pod through a projected volume.
TopologyManager: Enable a mechanism to coordinate fine-grained hardware resource assignments for different components in Kubernetes. See Control Topology Management Policies on a node.
TTLAfterFinished: Allow a TTL controller to clean up resources after they finish execution.
UserNamespacesStatelessPodsSupport: Enable user namespace support for stateless Pods. This feature gate was superseded by the UserNamespacesSupport feature gate in the Kubernetes v1.28 release.
ValidateProxyRedirects: This flag controls whether the API server should validate that redirects are only followed to the same host. Only used if the StreamingProxyRedirects flag is enabled.
VolumePVCDataSource: Enable support for specifying an existing PVC as a DataSource.
VolumeScheduling: Enable volume topology aware scheduling and make the PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) binding aware of scheduling decisions. It also enables the usage of local volume type when used together with the PersistentLocalVolumes feature gate.
VolumeSnapshotDataSource: Enable volume snapshot data source support.
VolumeSubpath: Allow mounting a subpath of a volume in a container.
VolumeSubpathEnvExpansion: Enable subPathExpr field for expanding environment variables into a subPath.
WarningHeaders: Allow sending warning headers in API responses.
WindowsEndpointSliceProxying: When enabled, kube-proxy running on Windows will use EndpointSlices as the primary data source instead of Endpoints, enabling scalability and performance improvements. See Enabling Endpoint Slices.
WindowsGMSA: Enables passing of GMSA credential specs from pods to container runtimes.
WindowsHostProcessContainers: Enables support for Windows HostProcess containers.
WindowsRunAsUserName: Enable support for running applications in Windows containers with as a non-default user. See Configuring RunAsUserName for more details.

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