Geo: Add container registry sync test for missing config

What does this MR do and why?

Follow up for !153914 (comment 1926896198):

question (non-blocking) I am wondering if it would be hard to write a test to cover the case of this error bubbling up to last_sync_failure?

This MR adds such a test.

It also refactors the code a tiny bit.

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