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Support out-of-tree / external cloud providers
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Currently kubeadm fails in preflight check. We should allow external cloud providers
```
[preflight] Starting the kubelet service
cloudprovider: Invalid value: "external": cloudprovider not supported
```
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged)*:
Fixes #
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
**Release note**:
```release-note
Added support for external cloud providers in kubeadm
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