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From: Kubernetes Publisher <k8s-publishing-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:19:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #119262 from
 HirazawaUi/automated-cherry-pick-of-#119229-upstream-release-1.27

Automated cherry pick of #119229: Fix the converts an empty string to nil.

Kubernetes-commit: 16fc1c954ce6e936fc19a33c0f7e5a2b94010ec2