Robustness to driver pod taking time to create

[Tom-Newton]

Purpose of this PR

Improve reliability.
Closes: #2302

Proposed changes:

• Add a grace period for the driver pod to be created.
• Grace period is controlled by a new config option driver-pod-creation-grace-period. Default is 10 seconds.
• Add 3 new tests around reconciling submitted status, including the new grace period functionality. This is the majority of the lines changed.
• Expose the new config option in the helm chart and add a helm test

Change Category

• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that could affect existing functionality)
• Documentation update

Checklist

• I have conducted a self-review of my own code.
• I have updated documentation accordingly - I think its sufficient just to add a description on the new argument on the helm chart and regenerate the helm docs.
• I have added tests that prove my changes are effective or that my feature works.
• Existing unit tests pass locally with my changes.

Additional Notes

Some logs of a real example on our prod cluster where the spark application was saved by the grace period added in this PR.
Explore-logs-2024-11-11 12_09_13.txt

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[Tom-Newton]

Sorry for the direct ping. @ChenYi015 are you the right person to review this?