1.32: housekeeping tasks

[neolit123]

This is a tracking issue for tasks that we are required to carry out during each cycle. It tracks the upcoming release of Kubernetes 1.32 (1.x)

Note: make sure you reference this issue in PRs.

same issue for 1.x-1 (see example PRs): #3047

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)
• Vendor the latest system-validators in kubernetes/kubernetes (may not be needed every release)
  • add cgroup v1 warning as it is in maintaince mode for kube system-validators#38
  • kernel version should be 4.19+; recommend version 5.8 for cgroup v2 system-validators#37
  • Windows: do not use 'uname' for doing OS validation system-validators#40

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 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.

Before the 1.x+1 cycle start

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

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