Moving target release to the active development branch (4.4). For any needed fixes where backports are required/requested, BZ clones will be created targeting those specific z-stream releases.

kubelet was switched back to the watching secret manager in 

https://github.com/sjenning/kubernetes/blob/c2018841e4d0cadcb439bb270908535c7b17b106/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/v1beta1/defaults.go#L228-L230

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/f2a0c0342c03e640de3ca58a6647731d5b667d95

Not a blocker or regression, setting severity to low.

Not a regression.  Been a scale limiting factor for a while. Deferring to 4.7

@rlk, when we discussed this bug in our recent team meeting, the question arose as to whether any of the recent upstream changes might have had an effect on this (good or bad). When you get a chance, could you test again on 4.7 to see if there has been any improvement?

Sorry, looks like this got auto-assigned to Ryan and Sunil when I added a sub component.

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 500 days