Bump k8s version in github actions

[ChunyiLyu]

Note to reviewers: remember to look at the commits in this PR and consider if they can be squashed

Summary Of Changes

1.26 kind image has been out for a while now. Lets test on a later version of k8s in github actions.

Additional Context

Local Testing

Please ensure you run the unit, integration and system tests before approving the PR.

To run the unit and integration tests:

$ make unit-tests integration-tests

You will need to target a k8s cluster and have the operator deployed for running the system tests.

For example, for a Kubernetes context named dev-bunny:

$ kubectx dev-bunny
$ make destroy deploy-dev
# wait for operator to be deployed
$ make system-tests