Description

Fixing the high and critical priority vulnerabilities and deprecating older Kubernetes version by adding new patched versions.

Fixes #CPDEV-111351

Solution

• Removed deprecated Kubernetes versions : v1.27.x & v1.28.x
• Added new patch versions for Kubernetes : v1.29.10, v1.30.10, v1.31.6 & v1.32.2
• Updated Unit tests
• Updated python image to address vulnerabilities
• Updated go dependencies to address vulnerabilities
• Updated Default Component Versions table

Checklist

• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• There is no breaking changes, or migration patch is provided
• Integration CI passed
• Unit tests. If Yes list of new/changed tests with brief description
• There is no merge conflicts

Unit tests

Below unit tests are modified -

1. test_admission - removed deprecated tests for Pod-security=true/feature gate
2. test_manage_pss - removed deprecated tests for Pod-security=true/feature gate
3. test_reconfigure - removed deprecated tessts for older kuber versions and modified few tests to use v1.29 instead of v1.27
4. test_restore - updated kuber versions for restore case
5. test_upgrade - removed deprecated test related to feature gate configurations.
6. core/test_cluster - updated kuber versions
7. core/test_env - updated kuber versions
8. plugins/test_nginx_ingress - removed conditional check for ingress controller version as nokuber is using ingress controllerversion less than v1.9.6