Undeprecated kubelet cloud-provider flag

Author: liggitt

cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go

@@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ func (f *KubeletFlags) AddFlags(mainfs *pflag.FlagSet) {
 	fs.StringVar(&f.CertDirectory, "cert-dir", f.CertDirectory, "The directory where the TLS certs are located. "+
 		"If --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file are provided, this flag will be ignored.")
 
+	fs.StringVar(&f.CloudProvider, "cloud-provider", f.CloudProvider, "The provider for cloud services. Set to empty string for running with no cloud provider. Set to 'external' for running with an external cloud provider. If set, the cloud provider determines the name of the node (consult cloud provider documentation to determine if and how the hostname is used).")
+
 	fs.StringVar(&f.RootDirectory, "root-dir", f.RootDirectory, "Directory path for managing kubelet files (volume mounts,etc).")
 	fs.BoolVar(&f.SeccompDefault, "seccomp-default", f.SeccompDefault, "Enable the use of `RuntimeDefault` as the default seccomp profile for all workloads.")
 
@@ -322,8 +324,6 @@ func (f *KubeletFlags) AddFlags(mainfs *pflag.FlagSet) {
 	fs.MarkDeprecated("keep-terminated-pod-volumes", "will be removed in a future version")
 	fs.StringVar(&f.ExperimentalMounterPath, "experimental-mounter-path", f.ExperimentalMounterPath, "[Experimental] Path of mounter binary. Leave empty to use the default mount.")
 	fs.MarkDeprecated("experimental-mounter-path", "will be removed in 1.25 or later. in favor of using CSI.")
-	fs.StringVar(&f.CloudProvider, "cloud-provider", f.CloudProvider, "The provider for cloud services. Set to empty string for running with no cloud provider. If set, the cloud provider determines the name of the node (consult cloud provider documentation to determine if and how the hostname is used).")
-	fs.MarkDeprecated("cloud-provider", "will be removed in 1.25 or later, in favor of removing cloud provider code from Kubelet.")
 	fs.StringVar(&f.CloudConfigFile, "cloud-config", f.CloudConfigFile, "The path to the cloud provider configuration file. Empty string for no configuration file.")
 	fs.MarkDeprecated("cloud-config", "will be removed in 1.25 or later, in favor of removing cloud provider code from Kubelet.")
 	fs.BoolVar(&f.ExperimentalNodeAllocatableIgnoreEvictionThreshold, "experimental-allocatable-ignore-eviction", f.ExperimentalNodeAllocatableIgnoreEvictionThreshold, "When set to 'true', Hard Eviction Thresholds will be ignored while calculating Node Allocatable. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/reserve-compute-resources/ for more details. [default=false]")