Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 39373, 41585, 41617, 41707, 39958)
Feature-Gate affinity in annotations
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Adds back basic flaggated support for alpha Affinity annotations
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
Reconcile function is placed in the lowest common denominator, which in this case is schedulercache, because you can't place flag-gated functions in apimachinery.
**Release note**:
```
NONE
```
/cc @davidopp
Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 39418, 41175, 40355, 41114, 32325)
TaintController
```release-note
This PR adds a manager to NodeController that is responsible for removing Pods from Nodes tainted with NoExecute Taints. This feature is beta (as the rest of taints) and enabled by default. It's gated by controller-manager enable-taint-manager flag.
```
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Forgiveness library changes
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Splited from #34825, contains library changes that are needed to implement forgiveness:
1. ~~make taints-tolerations matching respect timestamps, so that one toleration can just tolerate a taint for only a period of time.~~ As TaintManager is caching taints and observing taint changes, time-based checking is now outside the library (in TaintManager). see #40355.
2. make tolerations respect wildcard key.
3. add/refresh some related functions to wrap taints-tolerations operation.
**Which issue this PR fixes**:
Related issue: #1574
Related PR: #34825, #39469
~~Please note that the first 2 commits in this PR come from #39469 .~~
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
~~Since currently we have `pkg/api/helpers.go` and `pkg/api/v1/helpers.go`, there are some duplicated periods of code laying in these two files.~~
~~Ideally we should move taints-tolerations related functions into a separate package (pkg/util/taints), and make it a unified set of implementations. But I'd just suggest to do it in a follow-up PR after Forgiveness ones done, in case of feature Forgiveness getting blocked to long.~~
**Release note**:
```release-note
make tolerations respect wildcard key
```
Move over only the conversions that are needed, create a new scheme that
is private to meta and only accessible via ParameterCodec. Move half of
pkg/util/labels/.readonly to pkg/apis/meta/v1/labels.go
Jan Safranek