Initial hardening branch merge to development

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Comments & Concerns

Almost all of the issues we had in VATS were related to the UBI9 base image. The base images need to be looked at and updated so that other projects do not have to justify the larger number of issues.

Also, we do not really know if the renovate.json is necessary or how to populate it. We see it listed in the documentation here; however, the link specifically to "renovate documentation" is dead (404).