Tests
- Bump upgrade commit pin (#8768) #8769 (Ryan Mistretta)
Chores
- Bump Upstream Karpenter to include patch changes (#8834) #8834 (Amanuel Engeda)
- update static instance data (#8833) #8833 (Jason Deal)
- Bump Upstream Karpenter to v1.8.1 (#8839) #8839 (Amanuel Engeda)