Upgrade external-snapshotter to use Debian 12 Distroless

[jhawkins1]

Is your feature request related to a problem?/Why is this needed

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Since Debian 12 Distroless is available, as well as, the latest releases of Kubernetes and many of the Kubernetes related projects have moved to Debian 12, we would request that external-snapshotter components move to Debian 12 Distroless to align with other Kubernetes components.

Benefits: Alignment of the Container OS being used to other Kubernetes Components and related Projects. Reduces fan-out of multiple OSes or different versions of OSes across components. Potential benefits as to being able to obtain OS patches for vulnerabilities where Debian has decided only to fix in latest LTS (Debian 12) release and not older LTS releases.

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Additional context

[kady1711]

Following up on the feature request for migrating the external-snapshotter components to Debian 12 Distroless. This migration is crucial for aligning with the current standards across the Kubernetes ecosystem, which has seen a significant shift towards Debian 12. The benefits of this migration include improved alignment with other Kubernetes components, reduced complexity in managing multiple OS versions, and enhanced security through access to OS patches for vulnerabilities that Debian has committed to fixing in its latest LTS release only.

Could you please provide an update on the status of this request? Specifically, it would be helpful to know if there is a targeted release date or version number by which this migration is expected to be completed.