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Decouple kube-proxy upgrade/downgrade tests from upgradeTests
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Fixes the failing kube-proxy migration CI jobs:
- https://k8s-testgrid.appspot.com/sig-network#gci-gce-latest-upgrade-kube-proxy-ds
- https://k8s-testgrid.appspot.com/sig-network#gci-gce-latest-downgrade-kube-proxy-ds
**Which issue this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close that issue when PR gets merged)*: fixes#51729
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
/assign @krousey @nicksardo
Could you please take a look post code-freeze (I believe it is fixing things)? Thanks!
**Release note**:
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Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 40055, 42085, 44509, 44568, 43956)
improve error handling in e2e helpers
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Changes most of the volume related helper funcs to return error rather than calling `Expect`. This is a better programming practice, is consistent with Go and Kubernetes, and allows helper funcs that create multiple resources to perform cleanup.
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Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 41234, 42186, 41615, 42028, 41788)
Additional upgrade e2e tests
**What this PR does / why we need it**: Add basic upgrade tests for DaemonSet and Job, and add "during upgrade" testing to ConfigMap test. Add a simple harness for testing upgrade tests.
**Which issue this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close that issue when PR gets merged)*:
**Special notes for your reviewer**: continuation of #41296 @krousey please review, thanks
**Release note**: `NONE`
Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 41962, 42055, 42062, 42019, 42054)
PV upgrade test
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
This PR adds a PV upgrade test to the new upgrade test framework. Before, this test had to be done manually. Currently the upgrade test framework only works on the GCE environment, so I plan to add support for other providers later. In order to write the test, I had to modify and refactor some volume test util libraries. I reran the impacted tests to make sure they still passed.
**Which issue this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close that issue when PR gets merged)*: fixes #
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
It's probably easier to review the two commits separately. I split it up into the refactor changes, and the upgrade test changes.
**Release note**:
NONE
cc @saad-ali @krousey
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StatefulSet Upgrade Test
Adds StatefulSet upgrade tests and moves common functionality into the framework package. This removes the potential for cyclic dependencies while allowing for code reuse.
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Jordan Liggitt