website/content/en/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/feature-gates/DisableKubeletCloudCredentialProviders.md

title	content_type	_build	stages
DisableKubeletCloudCredentialProviders	feature_gate	list render never false	stage defaultValue fromVersion toVersion alpha false 1.23 1.28 stage defaultValue fromVersion toVersion beta true 1.29 1.30 stage defaultValue fromVersion stable true 1.31

Enabling the feature gate deactivated the legacy in-tree functionality within the kubelet, that allowed the kubelet to to authenticate to a cloud provider container registry for container image pulls.