Migrate Staging images away from GCR to AR

[ameukam]

What do you want to happen?

Publish images to a new AR container repository. GCR is depecrated and will be removed on March 2025:
https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/transition/prepare-gcr-shutdown#what-happens-after-shutdown

Is there currently another issue associated with this?

• GCR to Artifact Registry tracking k8s.io#1343

[ameukam]

/priority important-soon
/triage accepted

[ameukam]

FYI @kubernetes/ingress-nginx-maintainers

[longwuyuan]

Can you help improve the description and make it more elaborate and descriptive.

Where is the connection to gcr

% k -n ingress-nginx describe po ingress-nginx-controller-699896b45d-vz42s| grep -i image
    Image:           registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/controller:v1.11.3@sha256:d56f135b6462cfc476447cfe564b83a45e8bb7da2774963b00d12161112270b7
    Image ID:        registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/controller@sha256:d56f135b6462cfc476447cfe564b83a45e8bb7da2774963b00d12161112270b7
  Normal   Pulled          26m                kubelet                   Container image "registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/controller:v1.11.3@sha256:d56f135b6462cfc476447cfe564b83a45e8bb7da2774963b00d12161112270b7" already present on machine

[longwuyuan]

/remove-priority important-soon
/remove-triage accepted

can reapply labels after detailing the description of the issue