Backport of Fix issue with persisting proxy-defaults into release/1.1… #14449

Job	Run time
Setup	5s
get-go-version / Determine Go toolchain version	7s
check-go-mod / check-go-mod	35s
build-386	2m 10s
build-amd64	3m 6s
build-arm	2m 53s
build-s390x	0s
build-distros-success	6s
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