Revert "OCPBUGS-65548: Bump to k8s 1.34.2"

[dgoodwin]

Reverts #2514

Testing for https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-66420 to see if this is our culprit

[openshift-ci-robot]

@dgoodwin: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-65548, which is invalid:

• expected the bug to be in one of the following states: NEW, ASSIGNED, POST, but it is MODIFIED instead

Comment /jira refresh to re-evaluate validity if changes to the Jira bug are made, or edit the title of this pull request to link to a different bug.

The bug has been updated to refer to the pull request using the external bug tracker.

In response to this:

Reverts #2514

Testing for https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-66420 to see if this is our culprit

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• 8d21439|Revert "OCPBUGS-65548: Bump to k8s 1.34.2": does not specify an upstream backport in the commit message

Comment /validate-backports to re-evaluate validity of the upstream PRs, for example when they are merged upstream.

[dgoodwin]

/payload-aggregate periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.21-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-fips 10
/payload-aggregate periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.21-e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade 10

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[openshift-ci]

@dgoodwin: trigger 2 job(s) for the /payload-(with-prs|job|aggregate|job-with-prs|aggregate-with-prs) command

• periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.21-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-fips
• periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.21-e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade

See details on https://pr-payload-tests.ci.openshift.org/runs/ci/d98e1280-d434-11f0-8d61-8865da5aaa66-0

[openshift-merge-robot]

Fix included in accepted release 4.21.0-0.nightly-2025-12-08-112148