Merge pull request #17306 from spowelljr/autoUpdateIstioOperator #2708

Job	Run time
build_minikube	14m 54s
lint	4m 47s
unit_test	2m 30s
functional_podman_ubuntu	11m 33s
functional_docker_containerd_ubuntu	8m 1s
functional_baremetal_ubuntu20_04	7m 59s
functional_virtualbox_macos	11m 22s
functional_docker_ubuntu	12m 40s
upload_all_reports	18s
	1h 14m 4s

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