ci: OPS-1744: Remove tool installs and test new CI image

[dillon-cullinan]

Overview:

Testing new CI runner image that has tools pre-installed

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated GitHub Actions workflow configurations with optimized test runner specifications
  • Streamlined deployment workflow steps by removing redundant dependency installations
  • Simplified build pipeline infrastructure for improved efficiency

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Walkthrough

Removed AWS CLI installation steps from GitHub Actions workflows and updated runner configurations. Multiple workflow jobs transitioned from standard runners to "-test" variants. Namespace setup steps were simplified by removing dependency installation procedures, streamlining the container validation backend workflow.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
AWS CLI Installation Removal .github/actions/docker-build/action.yml, .github/workflows/container-validation-backends.yml	Deleted explicit AWS CLI download, extraction, and installation steps. AWS CLI is no longer provisioned during workflow execution.
Runner Configuration Updates .github/workflows/container-validation-backends.yml	Updated matrix runner names and runs-on configurations across operator, vllm, sglang, trtllm, and deploy-test jobs from standard runners (e.g., -2xlarge) to test variants (e.g., -2xlarge-test, -test).
Namespace Setup Simplification .github/workflows/container-validation-backends.yml	Renamed step from "Set namespace and install dependencies" to "Set namespace". Removed dependency installation block including curl, apt-get, yq, Helm, and kubectl setup.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~12 minutes

• Runner name updates across multiple jobs are homogeneous, repetitive changes requiring minimal per-file reasoning
• AWS CLI removal is a consistent pattern deletion across files
• Namespace setup simplification involves straightforward step removal
• Key attention area: Verify that AWS CLI removal does not break ECR login or other workflow steps that may depend on AWS CLI availability; confirm test runners provide necessary environment

Poem

🐰 The runners hop to their test corrals now,
AWS CLI steps fade to memory's bow,
Dependencies pruned, workflows grow lean,
Container validation, cleaner and keen!
Simplified paths through the GitHub machine! 🚀

Pre-merge checks

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description Check	⚠️ Warning	The PR description is largely incomplete and missing several required sections from the template. While an Overview section is present with a brief explanation about testing a new CI runner image, the description lacks the Details section (describing specific changes), the "Where should the reviewer start?" section (calling out specific files), and the Related Issues section (with action keywords). Given that only one of four major template sections is provided, the description does not meet the repository's documentation standards for pull requests.	The author should expand the PR description by adding the missing sections: provide a detailed list of changes made across .github/actions/docker-build/action.yml and .github/workflows/container-validation-backends.yml, specify which files reviewers should focus on first, and include a Related Issues section that formally links to the OPS-1744 ticket using an action keyword like "Closes" or "Relates to".
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	You can run @coderabbitai generate docstrings to improve docstring coverage.

✅ Passed checks (1 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title Check	✅ Passed	The PR title "ci: OPS-1744: Remove tool installs and test new CI image" accurately reflects the main changes in the pull request. The summary shows that tool installations (AWS CLI) were removed from the workflow and runner names were updated to test-variants, which aligns directly with the title's mention of removing tool installs and testing a new CI image. The title is concise, specific, and provides meaningful context about the primary change without vague terminology.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (1)

.github/workflows/container-validation-backends.yml (1)

366-522: Critical: "-test" runner image is missing required tools (yq, helm, kubectl).

Verification confirms that the -test runner does not have yq, helm, or kubectl pre-installed. The workflow uses all three tools in the "Deploy Operator" step but removed dependency installation in the namespace setup (lines 366–379), causing the workflow to fail at runtime.

Tools missing:

• yq (lines 435, 437, 449)
• helm (lines 415–419)
• kubectl (lines 378, 393, 426, 449, etc.)

Required fixes:

1. Restore dependency installation in the "Set namespace" step or add a separate "Install tools" step to the "Deploy Operator" job, or
2. Ensure the -test runner image is built with these tools pre-installed before merging.

Verify the intended approach with the infrastructure team and update accordingly.

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📥 Commits

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📒 Files selected for processing (2)

• .github/actions/docker-build/action.yml (0 hunks)
• .github/workflows/container-validation-backends.yml (8 hunks)

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• .github/actions/docker-build/action.yml

🧰 Additional context used

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.github/workflows/container-validation-backends.yml

345-345: label "cpu-amd-m5-2xlarge-test" is unknown. available labels are "windows-latest", "windows-latest-8-cores", "windows-2025", "windows-2022", "windows-11-arm", "ubuntu-latest", "ubuntu-latest-4-cores", "ubuntu-latest-8-cores", "ubuntu-latest-16-cores", "ubuntu-24.04", "ubuntu-24.04-arm", "ubuntu-22.04", "ubuntu-22.04-arm", "macos-latest", "macos-latest-xl", "macos-latest-xlarge", "macos-latest-large", "macos-26-xlarge", "macos-26", "macos-15-intel", "macos-15-xlarge", "macos-15-large", "macos-15", "macos-14-xl", "macos-14-xlarge", "macos-14-large", "macos-14", "macos-13-xl", "macos-13-xlarge", "macos-13-large", "macos-13", "self-hosted", "x64", "arm", "arm64", "linux", "macos", "windows". if it is a custom label for self-hosted runner, set list of labels in actionlint.yaml config file

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547-547: label "cpu-amd-m5-2xlarge-test" is unknown. available labels are "windows-latest", "windows-latest-8-cores", "windows-2025", "windows-2022", "windows-11-arm", "ubuntu-latest", "ubuntu-latest-4-cores", "ubuntu-latest-8-cores", "ubuntu-latest-16-cores", "ubuntu-24.04", "ubuntu-24.04-arm", "ubuntu-22.04", "ubuntu-22.04-arm", "macos-latest", "macos-latest-xl", "macos-latest-xlarge", "macos-latest-large", "macos-26-xlarge", "macos-26", "macos-15-intel", "macos-15-xlarge", "macos-15-large", "macos-15", "macos-14-xl", "macos-14-xlarge", "macos-14-large", "macos-14", "macos-13-xl", "macos-13-xlarge", "macos-13-large", "macos-13", "self-hosted", "x64", "arm", "arm64", "linux", "macos", "windows". if it is a custom label for self-hosted runner, set list of labels in actionlint.yaml config file

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567-567: label "cpu-amd-m5-2xlarge-test" is unknown. available labels are "windows-latest", "windows-latest-8-cores", "windows-2025", "windows-2022", "windows-11-arm", "ubuntu-latest", "ubuntu-latest-4-cores", "ubuntu-latest-8-cores", "ubuntu-latest-16-cores", "ubuntu-24.04", "ubuntu-24.04-arm", "ubuntu-22.04", "ubuntu-22.04-arm", "macos-latest", "macos-latest-xl", "macos-latest-xlarge", "macos-latest-large", "macos-26-xlarge", "macos-26", "macos-15-intel", "macos-15-xlarge", "macos-15-large", "macos-15", "macos-14-xl", "macos-14-xlarge", "macos-14-large", "macos-14", "macos-13-xl", "macos-13-xlarge", "macos-13-large", "macos-13", "self-hosted", "x64", "arm", "arm64", "linux", "macos", "windows". if it is a custom label for self-hosted runner, set list of labels in actionlint.yaml config file

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• GitHub Check: sglang (amd64)
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