[main] sync main from opendatahub-io:main

[harshad16]

sync release-2024a from opendatahub-io:2024a
this covers all the commits from opendatahub-io:2024a

Fixes: #344

created with following commands:

git checkout main
git checkout -b rsync-main
git remote add upstream <opendatahub-io/notebooks>
git pull upstream main --no-rebase

[harshad16]

/ok-to-test
/approve

Merging to freeze the code for 2.12

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