- Pre-merge cleanup

- Added prune of docker buildx dandling images

- Removed wait loops while creating secrets for CockroachDB, NATS, or QuestDB
- Added backward compatible condition as NATS client port changed name from "client" to "nats"

- Added wait loops to let CockroachDB, NATS, or QuestDB services to become ready and available.

- Updated tfs.sh to choose between classical docker build command or new docker buildx framework
- Minor cosmetic improvements

- Added conditions to skip unneeded steps

- Added deployment of new dashboards

- Added namespace as sub-folder for manifests and logs in all scripts
- Added missing folder creation command in qdb

- Minor improvements

- Updated device details dashboard

- Added deploy of load generator dashboard

- Moved from common/method_wrappers to WebUI
- Generalized definition of dashboards
- Minor corrections in dashboards
- Corrected accounting of "not-found"/"already exists" exceptions in decorator
- Corrected type hints in decorator
- Added deployment of dashboards in deploy script

- Minor cosmetic changes

- Removed unneeded scripts/files
- Cleaned up changes

- Added script to expose observability framework
- Extended TFS deploy scripts to run automatically run expose observability scripts
- Adapted TFS deploy script
- Script cleanup

- Added linkerd injection of sidecars in pods

- Added linkerd injectors for load balancing (commented, not working)
- Added service monitor to my_deploy.sh

- Added definition of external ports
- Added definition of NATS namespace
- Improved Grafana configuration
- Improved deployment of dependencies
- Updated my_deploy.sh script

- Added settings to define custom port numbers where dependencies should be exposed.
- Corrected order of commands in dependency deploy scripts
- Extended NATS deployment to support multiple instances
- Extended TFS deployment to support configuration of multiple Grafana instances
- Removed constraint of installing monitoring component to deploy Grafana
- Updated example my_deploy.sh

- minor cosmetic changes