Release v1.8.2 and Update Go to v1.21.1 (#10379)

* Bump Go version to 1.21.1 (#10377)

* Bump Go version to 1.21.1

* Bump testrunner image

* Fix lint error on datadog struct

* Revert lint on 1.8

* Fix http default backend test

* Fix http default backend test

* Fix http default backend test (#10382)

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -62,22 +62,6 @@ jobs:
               - 'charts/ingress-nginx/**/*'
               - 'NGINX_BASE'
 
-
-  security:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@c85c95e3d7251135ab7dc9ce3241c5835cc595a9 # v3.5.3
-
-      - name: Run Gosec Security Scanner
-        uses: securego/gosec@c5ea1b7bdd9efc3792e513258853552b0ae31e06 # v2.16.0
-        with:
-          # G601 for zz_generated.deepcopy.go
-          # G306 TODO: Expect WriteFile permissions to be 0600 or less
-          # G307 TODO: Deferring unsafe method "Close"
-          args: -exclude=G109,G601,G104,G204,G304,G306,G307 -tests=false -exclude-dir=test -exclude-dir=images/  -exclude-dir=docs/ ./...
-
   lint:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: changes
@@ -86,12 +70,11 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@c85c95e3d7251135ab7dc9ce3241c5835cc595a9 # v3.5.3
-      
       - name: Set up Go
         id: go
         uses: actions/setup-go@fac708d6674e30b6ba41289acaab6d4b75aa0753 # v4.0.1
         with:
-          go-version: '1.20'
+          go-version: '1.21.1'
           check-latest: true
 
       - name: Run Lint
@@ -110,7 +93,7 @@ jobs:
         id: go
         uses: actions/setup-go@fac708d6674e30b6ba41289acaab6d4b75aa0753 # v4.0.1
         with:
-          go-version: '1.20'
+          go-version: '1.21.1'
           check-latest: true
 
       - name: Run go-fmt
@@ -129,7 +112,7 @@ jobs:
         id: go
         uses: actions/setup-go@fac708d6674e30b6ba41289acaab6d4b75aa0753 # v4.0.1
         with:
-          go-version: '1.20'
+          go-version: '1.21.1'
           check-latest: true
 
       - name: Run test
@@ -150,7 +133,7 @@ jobs:
         id: go
         uses: actions/setup-go@fac708d6674e30b6ba41289acaab6d4b75aa0753 # v4.0.1
         with:
-          go-version: '1.20'
+          go-version: '1.21.1'
           check-latest: true
 
       - name: Set up QEMU
@@ -216,7 +199,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@fac708d6674e30b6ba41289acaab6d4b75aa0753 # v4.0.1
         with:
-          go-version: '1.20'
+          go-version: '1.21.1'
           check-latest: true
 
       - name: cache
@@ -474,7 +457,7 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ steps.filter-images.outputs.kube-webhook-certgen == 'true' }}
         uses: actions/setup-go@fac708d6674e30b6ba41289acaab6d4b75aa0753 # v4.0.1
         with:
-          go-version: '1.20'
+          go-version: '1.21.1'
           check-latest: true
 
       - name: kube-webhook-certgen image build

.github/workflows/plugin.yaml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@fac708d6674e30b6ba41289acaab6d4b75aa0753 # v4.0.1
         with:
-          go-version: 1.20
+          go-version: '1.21.1'
           check-latest: true
 
       - name: Run GoReleaser