Patryk Małek

### Problem statement When `KongClusterPlugin` with invalid schema is applied e.g. ``` apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1 config: config: latency_metrics: true kind: KongClusterPlugin metadata: annotations: kubernetes.io/ingress.class: kong labels: global: "true" name: default-kong plugin:...

feat: don't configure Kong Gateways with incompatible router flavor

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**What this PR does / why we need it**: Warn users in logs when Kong Gateway with incompatible router is detected and reject the client for that Gateway when sending...

### Problem statement #4994 reverted a change which made Konnect related manifests use the `expressions` router flavor. This issue tracks using `expressions` router in Konnect related manifests when that's properly...

### Problem statement #5103 tries to solve #5061 but leaves the CRD validations unreviewed. For instance: - `KongConsumer`'s `Username` is required ([enforced in admission webhook](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/blob/a364f353c4733ec1c7a607915aa8237affdd9935/internal/admission/validator.go#L108-L111)) but that could easily be...

### Is there an existing issue for this? - [X] I have searched the existing issues ### Current Behavior ### Problem statement Gateway Discovery allows configuring the DNS strategy to...

Flaky E2E test: `TestValidationWebhook/should_fail_the_validation_if_the_secret_in_ConfigPatches_of_KongClusterPlugin_generates_invalid_configuration`

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### Problem statement During one of the kong image validation workflow runs the `TestValidationWebhook/should_fail_the_validation_if_the_secret_in_ConfigPatches_of_KongClusterPlugin_generates_invalid_configuration` test has failed but it shouldn't (it passed on [re-run](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/actions/runs/7286242198)) ``` webhook_test.go:891: Error Trace: /home/runner/work/kubernetes-ingress-controller/kubernetes-ingress-controller/test/integration/webhook_test.go:891 Error:...

### Problem statement KIC's example manifests sometimes drift from the implementation and since they are never checked for correctness in the pipeline they sometimes get outdated and invalid. This task...

Allow specifying user defined log level names

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** As a user of `zap` I'd like to define my own custom log level, let's call it `TraceLevel`. It's destined...

I'm trying to figure out how to use the logging packages in terratest to avoid referencing files in there (using `testing.Helper()`). I tried several things and all of them fail:...

Raw map configuration and case sensitivity

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### Welcome - [X] Yes, I'm using a binary release within 2 latest major releases. Only such installations are supported. - [X] Yes, I've searched similar issues on GitHub and...