fix tests to run locally and in CI and misc fixes

[sumedhpd]

1. Events aren't available when running tests locally in kind via dev test integration_test
2. k8s now shows "currentReplicas" separately
3. there is a race condition where pod creation after the creation of the namespace can fail because a "default" serviceaccount is not yet ready/created in the newly created namespace (Creating a pod fails if default service account does not exist with the default service account enabled. kubernetes/kubernetes#66689) - need to wait for the serviceaccount to be ready

There are still more flaky tests, this only takes things a bit further

[sumedhpd]

testing locally, it seems now there are far fewer flaky tests

[kn100]

seems sensible to me :D

[timothysmith0609]

😍

[sumedhpd]

another CI with 0 retries needed :)