✨ Add an option to set ReleaseOnCancel for leader election

[Danil-Grigorev]

Allow to specify ReleaseOnCancel option in manager.Options which gives an opportunity to reduce writes at etcd in idle for acquiring leader-election resource lock. Gives an ability to increase the values for LeaseDuration, RenewDeadline, and RetryPeriod, and not experience long pod downtimes at the times when the leader replica was downscaled, and a new one is still waiting for LeaseDuration to attempt to become one.

Copying implementation from openshift/cloud-credential-operator#231, thanks to @dgoodwin, who implemented it first.

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[JoelSpeed]

/ok-to-test

[Danil-Grigorev]

@dgoodwin PTAL, would appreciate your opinion on this.

[alvaroaleman]

What are the odds? I created a PR for the same thing a couple of days back: #1126

I believe my PR has a better description of the implications of this, WDYT?

[JoelSpeed]

@alvaroaleman I've just checked over your PR and agree, the comment there is better IMO, changes are pretty identical otherwise 😅

[Danil-Grigorev]

Closing this - dup. #1126 :) Thanks @alvaroaleman!