v1.9.0

What's Changed

• default pushmode for gitops to ASYNC by @smarunich in #368
• Upstream connection settings by @smarunich in #370
• Update tsb-bookinfo-application-gateway.yaml by @shamusx in #373
• Delete addons/argocd/applications/bookinfo-dev.yaml by @shamusx in #374
• Update tsb-bookinfo-egress-gateway.yaml by @shamusx in #375
• adding AWS LB controller to the default installation by @smarunich in #376
• +directResponse, faultInjection, egressAuthorization by @smarunich in #377

Full Changelog: v1.9.0-rc0...v1.9.0