bump k8s.io deps

[guicassolato]

Bump k8s.io/* deps to latest.

• requires bumping go to 1.23
• enables ditching dario.cat/mergo dep in the process (ref.: reimplement merge to drop mergo dependency kubernetes/kubernetes#126764)

[codecov]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 83.44%. Comparing base (f5a0df3) to head (9a2f9c3).
Report is 1 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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- Coverage   83.57%   83.44%   -0.13%     
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  Files          82       82              
  Lines        7117     7117              
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- Hits         5948     5939       -9     
- Misses        937      946       +9     
  Partials      232      232              

Flag	Coverage Δ
bare-k8s-integration	23.44% <ø> (-0.25%)	⬇️
controllers-integration	74.11% <ø> (-0.05%)	⬇️
envoygateway-integration	41.30% <ø> (-0.10%)	⬇️
gatewayapi-integration	20.08% <ø> (+0.21%)	⬆️
istio-integration	44.30% <ø> (+0.07%)	⬆️
unit	19.08% <ø> (ø)

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Components	Coverage Δ
api/v1beta1 (u)	90.78% <ø> (ø)
api/v1beta2 (u)	∅ <ø> (∅)
pkg/common (u)	∅ <ø> (∅)
pkg/istio (u)	62.06% <ø> (ø)
pkg/log (u)	93.18% <ø> (ø)
pkg/reconcilers (u)	24.50% <ø> (ø)
pkg/rlptools (u)	∅ <ø> (∅)
controllers (i)	86.60% <ø> (-0.03%)	⬇️

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[KevFan]

Looks good to me! 💯

[eguzki]

@guicassolato for registry.redhat.io/ubi9/go-toolset, latest tag is 1.22. Do we know if 1.23 is coming soon?