Cherry pick - #7643

[nehaLohia27]

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[rikatz]

/ok-to-test

[rikatz]

Due to the urgency on this, gonna merge and fix the opentracing part on another PR

/approve
/lgtm
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[rikatz]

/override Kubernetes (v1.16.15)

[tomislater]

Hmm, what was wrong with the previous version? I mean, stable version is 1.20, so why do we want to use 1.19? I cannot find any comment about this.

[tomislater]

Achh, okay: #6896 (comment)

I understand.