Clean up and fix for NIC Pod failing to bind when NGINX exits unexpectedly

[AlexFenlon]

Proposed changes

cherry pick for #7121

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 0% with 12 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

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Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
cmd/nginx-ingress/main.go	0.00%	12 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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