Priyanka Saggu ab73613f42 [kubelet] add new OnPodSandboxReady method to RuntimeHelper interface to update PodReadyToStartContainers condition immediately after sandbox creation
This is to address the bug (gh-issue 134460), which reported that currently `PodReadyToStartContainers` condition is only set to `True` after the container image pull is completed. so, if the image size is big and image pull takes significant time to finish, the pod status managaer is blocked and the condition remaind `False`.

The commit implements the following changes, to allow kubelet to update the `PodReadyToStartContainers` pod condition immediately after all three requirements (pod sandbox, networking, volume)are ready, but before container images are pulled or containers are created.
* add `OnPodSandboxReady` method to the `RuntimeHelper` interface in `container/helpers.go`
* implement the `OnPodSandboxReady` method in Kubelet
* inside `(containerRuntime).SyncPod`, after sandbox creation and network configuration, invoke `runtimeHelper.OnPodSandboxReady()` directly
  (this method retrieves current pod status, generates updated API status, and notifies the status manager to sync to the API server)

This implementation is gated under `PodReadyToStartContainersCondition` feature gate, and fails gracefully, i.e, it only logs error and continues the pod creation process to make sure that these new changes don't block pod startup.
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