1. 1. Meta Issue for k8s 1.26 bump
      In order to bump Operator SDK to support Kubernetes 1.25 there are a few dependencies we rely on making the bump first.

This issue is meant to help track all dependencies and the status of their bumps.

1. 1. 1. Order of dependency bumps
         *Step 1: upgrade controller-runtime, controller-tools, helm, and operator-framework/operator-manifest-tools(can be done in parallel)*

• [ ] sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime
• [ ] sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools
• [ ] operator-framework/operator-manifest-tools

*Step 2: upgrade operator-framework/api and sigs.k8s.io/kubebuilder-declarative-pattern (can be done immediately after controller-runtime)*

• [ ] operator-framework/api
• [ ] sigs.k8s.io/kubebuilder-declarative-pattern

*Step 3.1: upgrade operator-framework/operator-registry and operator-framework/operator-lib (can be done immediately after operator-framework/api)*

• [ ] operator-framework/operator-registry
• [ ] operator-framework/operator-lib

*Step 3.2: upgrade kubebuilder (blocked until kubebuilder-declarative-pattern is bumped)*

• [ ] sigs.k8s.io/kubebuilder/v3

*Step 4: upgrade operator-framework/helm-operator-plugins and operator-framework/java-operator-plugins*

• [ ] operator-framework/helm-operator-plugins
• [ ] operator-framework/java-operator-plugins

*Step 5: upgrade operator-framework/operator-sdk dependencies*

• [ ] Bump Ginkgo/v2 and Kubebuilder 1.26
• [ ] Bump SDK to use k8s 1.26
• [ ] Bump envtest to 1.26

Upstream Github issue: https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/issues/6128