Chores
- bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.28.0 to 0.31.0 (#3735) (#3740) #3740 (Jaydip Gabani)
- update operation generate in deployment yaml and add docs, CP (#3738) (#3748) #3748 (Jaydip Gabani)
- Prepare v3.18.1 release (#3749) #3749 (github-actions[bot])