Cherry pick/worker conns

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 88.88889% with 3 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 86.95%. Comparing base (00112a4) to head (89e085d).
⚠️ Report is 12 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
internal/controller/manager.go	0.00%	3 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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  Files         128      128           
  Lines       15962    15986   +24     
  Branches       62       62           
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+ Hits        13879    13901   +22     
- Misses       1917     1918    +1     
- Partials      166      167    +1     

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