Merge pull request #290 from openshift-cherrypick-robot/cherry-pick-2…

…89-to-release-4.18

DFBUGS-975: [release-4.18] controllers: use semantic deepequal

pkg/utils/k8sutils.go

@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"maps"
 	"os"
-	"reflect"
 	"time"
 
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/equality"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/errors"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ func CreateOrReplace(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, obj client.Object, f
 		return err
 	}
 
-	if reflect.DeepEqual(existing, obj) {
+	if equality.Semantic.DeepEqual(existing, obj) {
 		return nil
 	}