Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes 2.12.0

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Enhancements

• Remove noisy stack config policy log line #7582 (issue: #7529)
• Increase the default PVC size for logstash #7540 (issue: #7538)
• Add eck-apm-server Helm Chart #7533 (issue: #7489)
• Add Health to Logstash Status #7528 (issue: #7527)
• Add resourceStatuses back into stack config policy status for backwards compatibility #7500
• Add support for updateStrategy in Logstash #7466
• Add TLS and basic authentication integration to Logstash API server #7408 (issue: #6971)
• Add support for securing the operator metrics endpoint with RBAC and TLS #7567
• Remove Enterprise license restriction from ECK stack Helm charts #7621

Bug fixes

• Fix having multiple type keys in eck-beats chart #7523 (issue: #7487)
• Use eck-operator UBI image when ubiOnly=true. #7486 (issue: #7485)
• Fix Logstash crashes with env #7475 (issue: #7450)

Documentation improvements

• Fix Logstash quickstart docs using single-quote EOF to avoid expanding variables #7580 (issue: #7572)
• Fix typo in managing-compute-resources documentation #7563
• Update APM Server docs for use since 8.x requiring Kibana #7559 (issue: #7541)
• Remove initContainer section in Logstash plugin docs #7557
• Add caution concerning running differing versions of CRDs + operator #7503
• Fix small typo in uninstall docs #7436

Misc

• fix(deps): update module golang.org/x/crypto to v0.20.0 #7578
• fix(deps): update module go.uber.org/zap to v1.27.0 #7577
• fix(deps): update module github.com/prometheus/common to v0.48.0 #7570
• fix(deps): update k8s to v0.29.2 and controller-runtime to v0.17.2 #7568
• fix(deps): update module github.com/hashicorp/vault/api to v1.12.0 #7550
• chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang docker tag to v1.22.0 #7549
• fix(deps): update module github.com/google/go-containerregistry to v0.19.0 #7517
• fix(deps): update k8s to v0.29.1 #7505
• chore(deps): update registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal docker tag to v9.3-1552 #7501
• fix(deps): update module github.com/google/uuid to v1.6.0 #7496
• fix(deps): update module k8s.io/klog/v2 to v2.120.1 #7484
• fix(deps): update module go.elastic.co/apm/v2 to v2.4.8 #7472
• fix(deps): update module sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools to v0.14.0 #7461
• fix(deps): update module github.com/spf13/viper to v1.18.2 #7458
• fix(deps): update module github.com/prometheus/client_golang to v1.18.0 #7417
• fix(deps): update module github.com/go-logr/logr to v1.4.1 #7409