diff --git a/vendor/k8s.io/utils/strings/slices/slices.go b/vendor/k8s.io/utils/strings/slices/slices.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8e21838f24c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/k8s.io/utils/strings/slices/slices.go
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2021 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+// Package slices defines various functions useful with slices of string type.
+// The goal is to be as close as possible to
+// https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45955. Ideal would be if we can just
+// replace "stringslices" if the "slices" package becomes standard.
+package slices
+
+// Equal reports whether two slices are equal: the same length and all
+// elements equal. If the lengths are different, Equal returns false.
+// Otherwise, the elements are compared in index order, and the
+// comparison stops at the first unequal pair.
+func Equal(s1, s2 []string) bool {
+	if len(s1) != len(s2) {
+		return false
+	}
+	for i, n := range s1 {
+		if n != s2[i] {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// Filter appends to d each element e of s for which keep(e) returns true.
+// It returns the modified d. d may be s[:0], in which case the kept
+// elements will be stored in the same slice.
+// if the slices overlap in some other way, the results are unspecified.
+// To create a new slice with the filtered results, pass nil for d.
+func Filter(d, s []string, keep func(string) bool) []string {
+	for _, n := range s {
+		if keep(n) {
+			d = append(d, n)
+		}
+	}
+	return d
+}
+
+// Contains reports whether v is present in s.
+func Contains(s []string, v string) bool {
+	return Index(s, v) >= 0
+}
+
+// Index returns the index of the first occurrence of v in s, or -1 if
+// not present.
+func Index(s []string, v string) int {
+	// "Contains" may be replaced with "Index(s, v) >= 0":
+	// https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45955#issuecomment-873377947
+	for i, n := range s {
+		if n == v {
+			return i
+		}
+	}
+	return -1
+}
+
+// Functions below are not in https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45955
+
+// Clone returns a new clone of s.
+func Clone(s []string) []string {
+	// https://github.com/go101/go101/wiki/There-is-not-a-perfect-way-to-clone-slices-in-Go
+	if s == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	c := make([]string, len(s))
+	copy(c, s)
+	return c
+}
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 127b1aa3d6e..9981be33688 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -2289,6 +2289,7 @@ k8s.io/utils/nsenter
 k8s.io/utils/path
 k8s.io/utils/pointer
 k8s.io/utils/strings
+k8s.io/utils/strings/slices
 k8s.io/utils/trace
 # sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client v0.0.22 => sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client v0.0.22
 sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client/pkg/client