Proposed changes

Update functional tests for the control plane data plane split.

Problem: The functional tests do not pass with the current architecture.

Solution: Add updates to functional tests, notable changes made:

• Collector collects regardless if latest configuration is nil. This is needed because if NGF is deployed without a gateway, the collector will throw an error since no nginx configuration has been made. This only affects endpoint count.

Bugs fixed:

• If a gateway was deployed with multiple listeners with different ports, it resulted in multiple nginx instances being created and subsequently terminated while NGF stayed in a continuous loop. This was because when we build our NGINX conf, we had a couple of fields which were processed by ranging over a map. Since ranging over a map in Golang results in a random order traversal, it meant that given a set input, the built nginx conf could have many different outcomes. Thus when processing resources we would continuously update nginx even though nothing had changed. Fixed by sorting the fields which are built by ranging over a map so that the outcomes would be deterministic.
• NGF would fail to delete a provisioned gateway in the following scenario.

1. Deploy NGF and a gateway
2. Delete NGF Pod.
3. Before NGF becomes leader, but a couple seconds after NGF had processed resources upon startup delete the gateway.

Fixed by tracking gateway delete event when NGF is not leader.

Opened bug: #3248

Closes part of #3010

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