2023.9.1 upgrade

[kenafoster]

Reference Issues or PRs

Prepares upgrade step for 2023.9.1 release

What does this implement/fix?

Put a x in the boxes that apply

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds a feature)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing features not to work as expected)
• [ X ] Documentation Update
• Code style update (formatting, renaming)
• Refactoring (no functional changes, no API changes)
• [ X ] Build related changes
• Other (please describe):

Testing

• [ X ] Did you test the pull request locally?
• [ X ] Did you add new tests?

Any other comments?

Tested K8S upgrade steps and recommendations thoroughly on AWS. Did NOT test DO, Azure, or GCP. Please validate

[iameskild]

Superseded by #2029 (@kenafoster I couldn't push to your remote branch or open PR against that branch)