Update to latest k8s.io dependencies

[rifelpet]

What is missing?

cass-operator is currently pinned to the go dependencies for k8s 1.29.

There is a breaking change in a newer k8s.io/controller-runtime version that prevents us from upgrading our own repo to >= k8s 1.30 because of the diamond dependency problem.

k8s 1.31 was released in August and 1.32 is due in December. It would be great to upgrade cass-operator's k8s.io dependencies to 1.31.

The breaking change that will require additional changes to cass-operator is in controller-runtime v0.18.0. The pkg/config package is removed and users are asked to define their own configuration. This package is currently referenced in apis/config/v1beta1, so a new config implementation will need to be added to replace this.

Why is this needed?

Updating to latest k8s.io dependencies allows users to use newer k8s.io functionality.

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Story by Unito
┆Issue Number: CASS-73

[burmanm]

This should be done in 1.24 release. Sadly the breaking change of controller-runtime prevents us from upgrading earlier.

[rifelpet]

Thanks for the update @burmanm, do you have a rough estimate of when we can expect 1.24 to be released?

[burmanm]

1.23 is going to be released this week, so the cycle for 1.24 starts after that. I don't have exact promised schedule (end of the year is tricky), but I'm trying to target before Christmas holidays.