[release-1.29] Backports for 2024-07 release cycle #8017

Job	Run time
build / Build	6m 33s
Integration Tests (certrotation)	2m 32s
Integration Tests (etcdrestore)	2m 36s
Integration Tests (localstorage)	2m 15s
Integration Tests (startup)	8m 36s
Integration Tests (custometcdargs)	1m 43s
Integration Tests (etcdsnapshot)	9m 14s
Integration Tests (kubeflags)	8m 5s
Integration Tests (longhorn)	3m 10s
Integration Tests (secretsencryption)	2m 57s
Integration Tests (flannelnone)	2m 9s
	49m 50s

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