migrate to registry.k8s.io from gcr.io

[darshansreenivas]

This PR replaces usage of the legacy Google-owned gcr.io/k8s-testimages registry with the community-owned registry.k8s.io/k8s-testimages.

This change aligns with Kubernetes community guidelines to decouple from Google-owned infrastructure.

Ref: #1387

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[darshansreenivas]

cc @xing-yang

[xing-yang]

/hold

[jsafrane]

/ok-to-test

Neither registry.k8s.io/distroless/static:latest nor registry.k8s.io/k8s-testimages/gcb-docker-gcloud:v20240718-5ef92b5c36 exist for me, I'm checking if CI can find them.

[jsafrane]

#2 ERROR: registry.k8s.io/distroless/static:latest: not found

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Test name	Commit	Details	Required	Rerun command
pull-kubernetes-csi-external-provisioner-unit	8febb3b	link	true	/test pull-kubernetes-csi-external-provisioner-unit

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[xing-yang]

This needs to be submitted to this repo: https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-release-tools. After that, use git subtree to pull the changes into each sidecar repo