Update to cilium v1.12.8

[camrynl]

Reason for Change:

Pipelines will now test with cilium v1.12.8

Issue Fixed:

Requirements:

• uses conventional commit messages
• includes documentation
• adds unit tests

Notes:

[rbtr]

what's the plan for larger migrations? should we parameterize this out into a(nother) test matrix so we can do [1.12.8, 1.13.x] etc?

[rbtr]

/azp run

[azure-pipelines]

Azure Pipelines successfully started running 1 pipeline(s).

[camrynl]

what's the plan for larger migrations? should we parameterize this out into a(nother) test matrix so we can do [1.12.8, 1.13.x] etc?

For now, we just test the next version against our load tests and the pr pipeline. Do you mean to have a separate pipeline where we can test multiple versions at once?

[rbtr]

I imagine it would be straightforward to run this pipeline as a matrix with the version parameterized. Like how we do ARM/AMD, so that we can transition in to new versions of the dependency without a hard cutover.

[camrynl]

I imagine it would be straightforward to run this pipeline as a matrix with the version parameterized. Like how we do ARM/AMD, so that we can transition in to new versions of the dependency without a hard cutover.

I see, I will move towards parameterized versions in future states