Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 50919, 51410, 50099, 51300, 50296)

GCE: Read networkProjectID param

Fixes #48515 

/assign bowei

The first commit is the original PR cherrypicked. The master's kubelet isn't provided a cloud config path, so the project is retrieved via instance metadata. In the GKE case, this project cannot be retrieved by the master and caused an error.

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