Automatic merge from submit-queue
Revert revert of downward api node defaults
Reverts the revert of https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27439Fixes#27062
@dchen1107 - who at Google can help debug why this caused issues with GKE infrastructure but not GCE merge queue?
/cc @wojtek-t @piosz @fgrzadkowski @eparis @pmorie