[ci:component:github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-vsphere:v0.27.0->v0.31.2]

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Release Notes:

Fix NPE in controlplane webhook (#461)

CVE categorization for MCM has been added.

Fix machine-controller-manager flags

The `gardener-extension-validator-vsphere` Service in the `gardener-extension-validator-vsphere` chart can now be configured to be topology-aware.

An edge case where outdated DesiredReplicas annotation blocked a rolling update is fixed.

[Update credentialsSecretRef in machineClass](https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-vsphere/commit/8cf35d1259945babdf0b17083ae7aa7308f92066)

The admission/validation component is now adapted such that it works well in garden cluster with enabled `NetworkPolicy` protection (default since `gardener/gardener@v1.71` when garden cluster is managed by `gardener-operator`).

Fix scale-from-zero issues by updating `MachineClass` template.

Fix a bug in the bootstrap token creation that caused node to not be able to join the cluster due to an expired bootstrap token.

The `gardener-extension-admission-vsphere` chart allows to optionally configure a projected volume based kubeconfig.

Fix NPEs in shoot and secret validators of `gardener-extension-validator-vsphere`

This extension now uses the simplified `NetworkPolicy` approach for allowing traffic to its webhook server from `kube-apiserver`s of shoot clusters.

Added proposal for hot-update of resources (instance/Nic/Disk)

Included `UnavailableReplicas` in determining if a machine deployment status update is needed

All code related to the removed `APIServerSNI` feature gate of `gardenlet` has been removed from this extension.

Deletion of 'Driver.GenerateMachineClassForMigration'. Providers need to adapt to this.

Remove validator restriction on scaling to zero

Removal of the following flags (and corresponding fields in associated structs): 'machine-creation-timeout' 'machine-drain-timeout', 'machine-pv-detach-timeout', 'machine-health-timeout=10m', 'machine-safety-apiserver-statuscheck-timeout', 'machine-safety-apiserver-statuscheck-period', 'machine-safety-orphan-vms-period', 'machine-max-evict-retries', 'node-conditions', 'bootstrap-token-auth-extra-groups', 'delete-migrated-machine-class'. The MCM no longer accepts these flags since these are options handled by the Machine Controller invoked by platform specific provider launchers.

Upgrade v1beta2 vpa resource to v1 for vsphere

`provider-vsphere` no longer supports Shoots or Seeds with Кubernetes version < 1.22.

`CrashloopBackoff` machines will turn to `Running` quicker

Machine object won't turn from `Pending`  to `Running` state if `node.gardener.cloud/critical-components-not-ready` taint is there on the corresponding node.

Bump `k8s.io/*` dependencies to v1.26.2

This extension is now compatible with the `MachineControllerManagerDeployment` feature gate of `gardenlet`.

The following dependency has been updated:
- github.com/gardener/gardener 1.67.1 -> 1.71.0

The API generation now works again. Previously the API docs was generated to a location that was ignored by git and other API docs file was maintained.

Old and obsolete logging configurations are removed.

An edge case where all the machineSets were scaled down to zero has been dealt with.

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