Merge Requests integrated in this release

22 merge requests were integrated in this repo between 1.7.8 and 1.7.9.
These notes don't account for the MRs merged in secondary repos.

Sylva-units framework

[backport-1.7] Add a CI test tool for the GitOps managed workload cluster deployment flow !9702 ~"backport" (issues: #4815)

[backport-1.7] Update kube-ovn repository !9701 ~"backport"
[backport-1.7]: Update MetalLB FRR-k8s pod tolerations !9777 ~"backport" (issues: #4711)

[backport-1.7] implement separate roles for neuvector readers and federation wide fedreader group !9328 ~"backport"
[release-1.7] fix(security): bump OpenBao to 2.6.3 !9383
[backport-1.7]: Keycloak IDP - generalize configuration parameter !9860 ~"backport" ~"keycloak" ~"type::bug" (issues: #4654)

[backport-1.7] Exclude kube-system namespace pods from VAP/restrict-node-selection !9839 ~"backport"

[backport-1.7] fix mgmt-check-keycloak-cm on dev-sources deployments !9724 ~"backport"
[backport-1.7] DeletingPolicy to garbage collect kube-jobs failed pods !9711 ~"backport" (issues: #4571)
[ backport-1.7 ] Fix sylva-units-preview deadlock !9828 ~"backport" (issues: #4800)
[backport-1.7] updated logging fluentd config to have metrics enabled !9871 ~"backport"
[backport-1.7] Condition rancher-init healthCheck on Keycloak existence !9887 ~"backport"
[ backport-1.7 ] Reconfigure kubelet eviction thresholds !9827 ~"backport" (issues: #4884)

[backport-1.7] check_keycloak_cm: ignore short-lived users in both checks !9804 ~"backport" ~"security::user-and-role-management" ~"type::bug"
[backport-1.7] Use new components instead of legacy Gitlab templates !9856 ~"backport"
[release-1.7] CI : enable docker in for the pre commit job !9883

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