K8s test-infra has entirely removed bazel support, this creates pains for us:

• we are currently not able to update the k8s test-infra dependencies, so we can't fix our automation
• we can't fix the custom dependabot issues
• we haven't kept up with the bazel versions

We need to touch several areas:

• we need to move from bazel deps into vendoring
• some component deployment tests are based on k8s bazel stuff - we need to remove them after having created follow ups to do this with std k8s stuff
• some of the image builds are done with bazel
• the dependabot needs to be moved to the default one
• we need to update the jobs that run robots with bazel