Fix publishing servlet images (#7194)

Resolves #7185

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -94,6 +94,14 @@ updates:
     # need to scope gradle dependency updates down in this repo because most of the instrumentations
     # intentionally test against old library versions
     directory: "/.github/dependabot-symlinks"
+    ignore:
+      - dependency-name: "com.bmuschko.docker-remote-api"
+        # Publishing Servlet images for smoke tests is failing starting from 9.0.0
+        # (see https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/issues/7185)
+        # in particular, these commands are failing (reproducible locally):
+        # ./gradlew :smoke-tests:images:servlet:buildLinuxTestImages pushMatrix -PsmokeTestServer=jetty
+        # ./gradlew :smoke-tests:images:servlet:buildWindowsTestImages pushMatrix -PsmokeTestServer=jetty
+        versions: [ "[9,)" ]
     rebase-strategy: "disabled"
     schedule:
       interval: "daily"

settings.gradle.kts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pluginManagement {
   plugins {
-    id("com.bmuschko.docker-remote-api") version "9.0.0"
+    id("com.bmuschko.docker-remote-api") version "8.1.0"
     id("com.github.ben-manes.versions") version "0.44.0"
     id("com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report") version "2.1"
     id("com.google.cloud.tools.jib") version "3.3.1"