POC - Integrate NAP WAF v5.1 and v4.9

[shaun-nx]

As a maintainer of the Ingress Controller, I would like to provide our users with support for NIC images with WAF v4.9 and v5.1

Definition of done:

• NIC + WAF builds working with WAF v4.9 for Debian, Alpine and UBI 8 & 9
• A path forward for how our NIC + WAF builds will operate with the additional waf-enforcer and waf-config-mgr containers.

For integration test with WAF v4.9, we've made a PR to allow our pipeline to run the tests: #5498

v4.9 Deployment test

Beta Give feedback

1. NIC with WAF v4.9 for Debian
2. NIC with WAF v4.9 for Alpine
3. NIC with WAF v4.9 for UBI 9(RedHat)

v5.1 Deployment test

Beta Give feedback

1. Build NIC with WAF v5 for Debian
2. Update NGINX Template to add app_protect_enforcer_address docs reference
3. Deploy NIC with WAF v5 + waf-enforcer and waf-config-mgr containers

[github-actions]

Hi @shaun-nx thanks for reporting!

Be sure to check out the docs and the Contributing Guidelines while you wait for a human to take a look at this 🙂

Cheers!

[shaun-nx]

v4.9 POC branch: https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/tree/poc/waf-v4.9