After the upstream PR feature "Enable Operator to consume catalog index" is merged, the downstream/midstream needs to be updated to include the CATALOG_INDEX_IMAGE environment variable in the operator bundle's default configuration.

Update the default config ConfigMap in:

https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/rhidp/rhdh/-/blob/rhdh-1-rhel-9/distgit/containers/rhdh-operator-bundle/manifests/rhdh-default-config_v1_configmap.yaml?ref_type=heads#L238  Add the CATALOG_INDEX_IMAGE environment variable to the install-dynamic-plugins init container:

   env:
     - name: NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG
       value: /opt/app-root/src/.npmrc.dynamic-plugins/.npmrc
     - name: MAX_ENTRY_SIZE
       value: "30000000"
     - name: CATALOG_INDEX_IMAGE
       value: "registry.redhat.io/rhdh/rhdh-plugin-catalog-index@sha256:<digest>" 

Use the downstream registry reference, the value should point to the Red Hat registry, not the upstream quay.io/rhdh/ registry

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The goal is to update the CATALOG_INDEX_IMAGE reference from the upstream quay.io/rhdh/plugin-catalog-index:1.9 to the downstream registry.redhat.io/rhdh/rhdh-plugin-catalog-index:1.9, then later transform this to use a pinned digest.

This should follow the existing process we have for sed/yq transformations in sync-midstream.sh to swap out community RHDH images for the production ones.