Bug Fixes

• enforce timeout on external data provider requests cherry-pick (#4351) (#4359) #4359 (Jaydip Gabani)

Chores

• bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.28 to 1.7.29 cp #4223 (#4360) #4360 (Jaydip Gabani)
• bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.43.0 to 0.45.0 CP(#4254) (#4364) #4364 (Jaydip Gabani)
• bump golang from 7534a62 to 04741b0 CP(#4341) (#4365) #4365 (Jaydip Gabani)
• bumping kubectl to resolve CVE CP(#4248) (#4366) #4366 (Jaydip Gabani)
• Prepare v3.21.1 release (#4367) #4367 (github-actions[bot])