RHOAIENG-11850: Cherry-pick fix to fix version rhoai-2.8

[mholder6]

Cherry picked the fixes from opendatahub-io#303 to the fix version branch rhoai-2.8

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PR checklist

Checklist items below are applicable for development targeted to both fast and stable branches/tags

• Unit tests pass locally
• FVT tests pass locally
• If the PR adds a new container image or updates the tag of an existing image (not build within cpaas), is the corresponding change made in live-builder and cpaas-midstream to add/update the image tag in the operator CSV? Link the PRs if applicable

Checklist items below are applicable for development targeted to both fast and stable branches/tags

• Tested modelmesh serving deployment with odh-manifests and ran odh-manifests-e2e tests locally