Replace test logger with logr.Discard()

[sjberman]

Our unit tests instantiate a new logger instance using the zap library when creating various objects. Instead, we can use logr.Discard() to create a logger that discards all logs for unit tests.

Acceptance

• replace unit test loggers with logr.Discard()

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