Package no longer being maintained: coreos/go-iptables

[cdirubbio]

What would you like to be added: Just reporting that the iptables package used is likely no longer being maintained. See the below message in K8s slack:

https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C09QYUH5W/p1766504895017669?thread_ts=1766274844.403919&cid=C09QYUH5W

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/coreos/go-iptables/iptables
https://github.com/coreos/go-iptables

Why is this needed:

[dap0am]

Is this okay to be picked up by me? @cdirubbio

[cdirubbio]

Is this okay to be picked up by me? @cdirubbio

This is less-so an issue to be actioned and more of a notification. Actioning this would require moving all iptables actions to a new dependency. The current version of go-iptables utilizes the iptables CLI under the hood, and is likely stable for the foreseeable future.