[FEATURE REQUEST] Switch from `k8s.gcr.io` to `registry.k8s.io`

[przemyslavic]

Legacy k8s.gcr.io container image registry is being redirected to registry.k8s.io

More info: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/03/10/image-registry-redirect/

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