diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/.import-restrictions b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/.import-restrictions
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..301698f8512
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/.import-restrictions
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{
+	"Rules": [
+	  {
+		"SelectorRegexp": "k8s[.]io/kubernetes",
+		"AllowedPrefixes": [
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/legacyscheme",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/service",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/v1/pod",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/v1/service",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/apps",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/autoscaling",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/core",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/scheduling",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/capabilities",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/cloudprovider",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/controller",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/credentialprovider",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/features",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/fieldpath",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/apis",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/types",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/master/ports",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/security/apparmor",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/serviceaccount",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/file",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/hash",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/mount",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/net/sets",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/parsers",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/resizefs",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/strings",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/taints",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/version",
+		    "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/volume"
+		],
+		"ForbiddenPrefixes": [
+		]
+	  }
+	]
+}