fix(chart): fully qualify alpine/kubectl image for short-name-enforcing runtimes

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Summary

The maintenance-job kubectl image (the selector-migration pre-upgrade hook and the webhook/skyhook cleanup pre-delete hooks) was referenced by the short name alpine/kubectl. Container runtimes that enforce short-name resolution (e.g. OCI OKE) reject the ambiguous reference, so the PreSync hook Job fails with ErrImagePull, exhausts its backoff/deadline, and blocks the entire ArgoCD Application sync before the operator or CRDs ever install.

Fixes #481

Changes

• chart/values.yaml: webhook.removalImage default is now docker.io/alpine/kubectl (tag/digest pinning unchanged), with a one-line comment on why the registry host must stay explicit.
• chart/templates/{selector-migration-job,cleanup-webhook-job,cleanup-skyhooks-job}.yaml: the inline default "alpine/kubectl" fallbacks are qualified the same way (covers removalImage: "").
• k8s-tests/chainsaw/helm/helm-template-test/chainsaw-test.yaml: the image assertion now checks for image: docker.io/alpine/kubectl.

No docs updates needed: docs/contributing/release-process.md already uses docker://docker.io/alpine/kubectl in its skopeo pinning instructions, and there is no kustomize mirror of these Helm-only hook Jobs under operator/config/.

Testing

• helm template renders docker.io/alpine/kubectl:1.36.2@sha256:01d138ce… in all three hook Jobs, both with default values and with --set webhook.removalImage="" (fallback path).
• chainsaw helm-template test passes locally against a kind cluster (it asserts the updated image line, digest pinning, and selector-migration script behavior).

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The chart now uses docker.io/alpine/kubectl for cleanup and selector-migration job images. Existing tag and digest rendering remains unchanged. The Helm template test now expects the fully qualified image reference.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 65140

The change qualifies the maintenance-job image reference without introducing an actionable merge-blocking risk; the PR is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

Suggested reviewers: lockwobr, rice-riley

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly states the primary fix: fully qualifying the Alpine kubectl image for runtimes that enforce short-name resolution.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately explains the image-pull failure, affected hooks, implementation changes, and validation coverage.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy [#481] by qualifying all relevant image defaults and fallbacks while preserving pinning and updating the template test.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All modified chart templates, values, and test assertions directly support the linked issue and stated pull request objectives.

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In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/helm/helm-template-test/chainsaw-test.yaml`:
- Around line 253-256: Extend the Helm template test to render
cleanup-skyhooks-job.yaml, cleanup-webhook-job.yaml, and
selector-migration-job.yaml with webhook.removalImage explicitly set to an empty
string via --set-string, and assert each rendered output contains the
docker.io/alpine/kubectl fallback image. Keep the existing release and namespace
context while covering all three maintenance jobs.

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• chart/templates/cleanup-skyhooks-job.yaml
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• chart/values.yaml
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operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go	6	80.26%

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