[registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.27.16](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-apiserver) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-apiserver-amd64),...

[registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.29.10](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-apiserver) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-apiserver-amd64),...

- k8s.io/klog/v2: v2.120.1 → v2.130.1
- k8s.io/utils: 3b25d92 → 18e509b
- sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client: v0.29.0 → v0.30.3
- sigs.k8s.io/knftables: v0.0.14 → v0.0.17
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api: 6ce0bf3 → v0.17.2
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/cmd/config: v0.11.2 → v0.14.1
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v5: 6ce0bf3 → v5.4.2
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml: 6ce0bf3 → v0.17.1

- golang.org/x/time: v0.3.0 → v0.7.0
- golang.org/x/tools: v0.24.0 → v0.26.0
- k8s.io/system-validators: v1.8.0 → v1.9.0
- sigs.k8s.io/json: bc3834c → 9aa6b5e
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api: v0.17.2 → v0.18.0
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/cmd/config: v0.14.1 → v0.15.0
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v5: v5.4.2 → v5.5.0
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml: v0.17.1 → v0.18.1

### Removed

[registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.28.15](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-apiserver) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-apiserver-amd64),...

	k8s.io/api v0.31.2
	k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver v0.31.2
	k8s.io/apimachinery v0.31.2
	k8s.io/apiserver v0.31.2
	k8s.io/cli-runtime v0.31.2
	k8s.io/client-go v0.31.2
	k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.130.1
	k8s.io/kubectl v0.31.2
	k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20240921022957-49e7df575cb6
	sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime v0.19.1
	sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api v1.2.0

[registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.30.6](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-apiserver) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-apiserver-amd64),...

[name](https://github.com/istio/operator/blob/e9097258cb4fbe59648e7da663cdad6f16927b8f/pkg/name/name.go#L131) package.

### K8s settings

Rather than defining selective mappings from parameters to fields in K8s resources, the `IstioOperatorSpec` API
contains a consistent K8s block for each Istio component. The available K8s settings are defined in

package precheck

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"testing"

	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
	"k8s.io/cli-runtime/pkg/resource"
	"k8s.io/client-go/rest/fake"
	cmdtesting "k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/testing"
	cmdutil "k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/util"

	"istio.io/istio/istioctl/pkg/cli"
	"istio.io/istio/pkg/config/analysis/diag"

	log := log.WithLabels("cni-event", addCmd)

	log.Debugf("netns: %s", addCmd.Netns)

	// The CNI node plugin should have already checked the pod against the k8s API before forwarding us the event,
	// but we have to invoke the K8S client anyway, so to be safe we check it again here to make sure we get the same result.
	ambientPod, err := s.getPodWithRetry(log, addCmd.PodName, addCmd.PodNamespace)
	if err != nil {