diff --git a/hack/.golint_failures b/hack/.golint_failures
index 13a88b0d7fe..4af9690a61c 100644
--- a/hack/.golint_failures
+++ b/hack/.golint_failures
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ pkg/features
 pkg/kubeapiserver
 pkg/kubeapiserver/options
 pkg/kubectl/cmd/convert
-pkg/kubelet/apis/config
 pkg/kubelet/apis/config/v1beta1
 pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager/testing/example_checkpoint_formats/v1
 pkg/kubelet/cm
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/types.go b/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/types.go
index ddb8a3e0eba..0e9cedc1353 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/types.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/types.go
@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ type KubeletConfiguration struct {
 	ReservedSystemCPUs string
 }
 
+// KubeletAuthorizationMode denotes the authorization mode for the kubelet
 type KubeletAuthorizationMode string
 
 const (
@@ -346,6 +347,7 @@ const (
 	KubeletAuthorizationModeWebhook KubeletAuthorizationMode = "Webhook"
 )
 
+// KubeletAuthorization holds the state related to the authorization in the kublet.
 type KubeletAuthorization struct {
 	// mode is the authorization mode to apply to requests to the kubelet server.
 	// Valid values are AlwaysAllow and Webhook.
@@ -356,6 +358,8 @@ type KubeletAuthorization struct {
 	Webhook KubeletWebhookAuthorization
 }
 
+// KubeletWebhookAuthorization holds the state related to the Webhook
+// Authorization in the Kubelet.
 type KubeletWebhookAuthorization struct {
 	// cacheAuthorizedTTL is the duration to cache 'authorized' responses from the webhook authorizer.
 	CacheAuthorizedTTL metav1.Duration
@@ -363,6 +367,7 @@ type KubeletWebhookAuthorization struct {
 	CacheUnauthorizedTTL metav1.Duration
 }
 
+// KubeletAuthentication holds the Kubetlet Authentication setttings.
 type KubeletAuthentication struct {
 	// x509 contains settings related to x509 client certificate authentication
 	X509 KubeletX509Authentication
@@ -372,6 +377,7 @@ type KubeletAuthentication struct {
 	Anonymous KubeletAnonymousAuthentication
 }
 
+// KubeletX509Authentication contains settings related to x509 client certificate authentication
 type KubeletX509Authentication struct {
 	// clientCAFile is the path to a PEM-encoded certificate bundle. If set, any request presenting a client certificate
 	// signed by one of the authorities in the bundle is authenticated with a username corresponding to the CommonName,
@@ -379,6 +385,7 @@ type KubeletX509Authentication struct {
 	ClientCAFile string
 }
 
+// KubeletWebhookAuthentication contains settings related to webhook authentication
 type KubeletWebhookAuthentication struct {
 	// enabled allows bearer token authentication backed by the tokenreviews.authentication.k8s.io API
 	Enabled bool
@@ -386,6 +393,7 @@ type KubeletWebhookAuthentication struct {
 	CacheTTL metav1.Duration
 }
 
+// KubeletAnonymousAuthentication enables anonymous requests to the kubetlet server.
 type KubeletAnonymousAuthentication struct {
 	// enabled allows anonymous requests to the kubelet server.
 	// Requests that are not rejected by another authentication method are treated as anonymous requests.