* [chore] Update go to v1.26.0, and the golangci-lint action to v9.
* Use golangci-lint v2.9.0
* Use golang:1.26.0-alpine instead of 1.25.7-alpine
* chore: more go version upgrades
* chore: more updates
* chore: generate apis
* fix: golint issues prealloc etc
* fix: million tiny golint issues
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Co-authored-by: konsalex <konstantinos.alexoglou@grafana.com>