Add renovate configuration to monitor istio operator upstream helm chart

Requirements:

• Kpt file shall be in repository pointing to upstream helm chart
• Renovate shall check version in Kpt file since Chart.yaml will have a modified version with -bb.x on the end
• Renovate shall create a new branch / merge request with the new version and SHA in the Kpt file
• Nice to have: Figure out how to have the automated job/pipeline also pull down the upstream chart into the new branch when there is an update.

Test to make sure:

• Dashboard is created when version is out-of-date
• Dashboard is not created when version is up-to-date

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Renovate works best when identifying the latest version of a dependency. For the Helm charts, we should not always be using the latest since it must be aligned with the version of the package from Iron Bank (and that is not always the latest). The complexity and maintenance cost of creating a script to identify the correct Helm chart version for the Iron Bank image version makes the ROI low for this task. Instead, we have added a task into the renovate issue to update the Helm chart any time a new Iron Bank version is identified for updating.

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