Staging 2.24.1 ck8s1

[Pavan-Gunda]

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What does this PR do / why do we need this PR?

Merges staging changes to release branch

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• Change checks:
  • [x] The change is transparent
  • [ ] The change is disruptive
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• Metrics checks:
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  • [ ] The metrics names did change (Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts were fixed)
• Logs checks:
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• Pod Security Policy checks:
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• Network Policy checks:
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  • [ ] The change does not cause any dropped packets in the NetworkPolicy Dashboard
• Audit checks:
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