Migration of kube-rbac-proxy in gitops-operator

Signed-off-by: akhil nittala <nakhil@redhat.com>

Author: akhilnittala

bundle/manifests/gitops-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml

@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ metadata:
     capabilities: Deep Insights
     console.openshift.io/plugins: '["gitops-plugin"]'
     containerImage: quay.io/redhat-developer/gitops-operator
-    createdAt: "2026-04-09T08:24:52Z"
+    createdAt: "2026-04-09T09:03:42Z"
     description: Enables teams to adopt GitOps principles for managing cluster configurations
       and application delivery across hybrid multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
     features.operators.openshift.io/disconnected: "true"

config/default/kustomization.yaml

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ bases:
 # [PROMETHEUS] To enable prometheus monitor, uncomment all sections with 'PROMETHEUS'.
 - ../prometheus
 
-patchesStrategicMerge:
 # Protect the /metrics endpoint with controller-runtime authn/authz.
 # If you comment out manager_metrics_patch.yaml, also comment out metrics_service.yaml,
 # metrics_role.yaml, metrics_role_binding.yaml, and metrics_reader_clusterrole.yaml