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Check RegisterMetricAndTrackRateLimiterUsage error when starting BootstrapSigner & TokenCleaner controllers
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Prevent `BootstrapSigner` and `TokenCleaner` controllers to start if `metrics.RegisterMetricAndTrackRateLimiterUsage` returns an error.
**Which issue this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close that issue when PR gets merged)*: complements #53571
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
**Release note**:
```release-note
NONE
```
Tokens controller previously needed a bit of extra help in order to be
safe for concurrent use. The new MutationCache allows it to keep a local
cache and still use a shared informer. The filtering event handler lets
it only see changes to secrets it cares about.
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replace global registry in apimachinery with global registry in k8s.io/kubernetes
We'd like to remove all globals, but our immediate problem is that a shared registry between k8s.io/kubernetes and k8s.io/client-go doesn't work. Since client-go makes a copy, we can actually keep a global registry with other globals in pkg/api for now.
@kubernetes/sig-api-machinery-misc @lavalamp @smarterclayton @sttts
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Add ECDSA support for service account tokens
Fixes#28180
```release-note
ECDSA keys can now be used for signing and verifying service account tokens.
```
This implements the proposal in:
docs/proposals/secret-configmap-downwarapi-file-mode.md
Fixes: #28317.
The mounttest image is updated so it returns the permissions of the linked file
and not the symlink itself.
Before this change, Authorize() method was just returning an error,
regardless of whether the user is unauthorized or whether there
is some other unrelated error. Returning boolean with information
about user authorization and error (which should be unrelated to
the authorization) separately will make it easier to debug.
Fixes#27974