diff --git a/.golangci.yaml b/.golangci.yaml
index 831312a45c8..b47dc9da4f2 100644
--- a/.golangci.yaml
+++ b/.golangci.yaml
@@ -5,27 +5,35 @@ run:
 
 issues:
   max-same-issues: 0
+  # Excluding configuration per-path, per-linter, per-text and per-source
+  exclude-rules:
+    # exclude ineffassing linter for generated files for conversion
+    - path: conversion\.go
+      linters:
+        - ineffassign
 
 linters:
   disable-all: true
   enable: # please keep this alphabetized
-    - deadcode
+  # Don't use soon to deprecated[1] linters that lead to false
+  # https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/issues/1841
+  # - deadcode
+  # - structcheck
+  # - varcheck
     - ineffassign
     - staticcheck
     - unused
-    - varcheck
+
 linters-settings: # please keep this alphabetized
   staticcheck:
     go: "1.17"
     checks: [
       "all",
-      "-S1*",   # Omit code simplifications for now.
-      "-ST1*",  # Mostly stylistic, redundant w/ golint
-      "-SA5011" # Possible nil pointer dereference
-    ]
-    ignore_pattern: [
-      "vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/edit/testdata",  # golang/go#24854, dominikh/go-tools#565
-      "cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/es-image" # cannot traverse go modules
+      "-S1*",    # TODO(fix) Omit code simplifications for now.
+      "-ST1*",   # Mostly stylistic, redundant w/ golint
+      "-SA5011", # TODO(fix) Possible nil pointer dereference
+      "-SA1019", # TODO(fix) Using a deprecated function, variable, constant or field
+      "-SA2002"  # TODO(fix) Called testing.T.FailNow or SkipNow in a goroutine, which isn’t allowed
     ]
   unused:
     go: "1.17"