CI: Implement GitHub action cache in pull-request-management workflow (WORK IN PROGRESS)

[Shivani-gslab]

Change Summary

WORK IN PROGRESS
Implementing github action cache for pull-request-management workflow.

Testing multiple approaches here -

• CI: GitHub cache tests Shivani-gslab/avd#6
• CI: test separate cache job Shivani-gslab/avd#5
• Feat: Implement GitHub action cache Shivani-gslab/avd#3

Points to be tested -

• Test if cache-hit conditon works with setup-python cache: pip or not and do not skip package upgrade -> the condition does not work as expected.
• Try creating single job for caching the common requirements and reuse that cache in each job. (need to check if we can get the cache-key from setup-python action, else try using actions/cache@v3. --> its not working as expected.
• Create separate cache for ansible-collections - Implemented it with artifacts
• Install dependencies in one job and upload to artifacts then reuse in other jobs. - Implemented it here https://github.com/aristanetworks/avd/actions/runs/12631183731
• Create container image with all dependencies and reuse the image in other jobs. - CI: Implement container action Shivani-gslab/avd#9 CI: container changes Shivani-gslab/avd#10

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Component(s) name

arista.avd.<role-name>

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To test this pull request:

# Create virtual environment for this testing below the current directory
python -m venv test-avd-pr-4778
# Activate the virtual environment
source test-avd-pr-4778/bin/activate
# Install all requirements including PyAVD
pip install "pyavd[ansible] @ git+https://github.com/Shivani-gslab/avd.git@github_cache_tests#subdirectory=python-avd" --force
# Point Ansible collections path to the Python virtual environment
export ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH=$VIRTUAL_ENV/ansible_collections
# Install Ansible collection
ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/Shivani-gslab/avd.git#/ansible_collections/arista/avd/,github_cache_tests --force
# Optional: Install AVD examples
cd test-avd-pr-4778
ansible-playbook arista.avd.install_examples

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[gmuloc]

closing in favor of #4870 - interesting to check caching of artefacts.