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myasnikovdaniil 94a202bc5a test(e2e): run the merge-gating lanes on Talos containers (#4020)
Replaces QEMU substrate with Talos containers on both lanes that gate a
merge. srv1-srv3 run as containers, so tenant worker sits at L2 instead
of L3.

Measured in CI on commits where both substrates ran the same tree:

| | qemu | container |
|---|---|---|
| `kubernetes-latest` / `-previous` | 1143-2040s, red on every
vgif-absent runner | 466-809s, green in both strata |
| whole job | | 24-49 min faster |

Almost all of it is in Chainsaw. Install takes about half an hour either
way.

Node-join soft-red gate goes with it. It was a prosthetic for nested
virt: a worker that registers in minutes elsewhere could miss any
deadline this test can afford, and #3513 established the discriminator
is host `kvm_amd` `vgif`, not anything about the product. Remove the
nesting level and there is nothing left to tolerate, so
`hack/e2e-node-join-soft-red.sh`, the marker and the `soft_red` outputs
are gone from all four workflows.

### What moves off the per-PR path

DRBD, and with it `replicated` StorageClass, its `Immediate` binding
mode, tenant StorageClass propagation (applies only to
remotely-accessible classes), and cozystack talos node image with its
extensions. None of it is lost - `nightly.yaml` and `e2e-tag.yaml` still
run the suite on QEMU, so all four keep nightly and release-candidate
coverage. Live migration is not on that list because nothing tests it
today anyway.

One more belongs on the list and was missing from it: the nocloud disk
build. `build-talos` no longer runs `make -C packages/core/talos
talos-nocloud`, so `images/talos/profiles/nocloud.yaml` is compiled by
`nightly.yaml` and by the tag build's `make assets` rather than by
anything a PR runs, and `promote-rc.yaml` still hard-fails a promotion
whose rc release has no `nocloud-amd64.raw.xz`. Nothing in that chain
breaks, because the tag build supplies the asset as before. What a PR no
longer catches is narrow: it still compiles `installer.yaml` through the
same imager, and the two profiles are generated by the same script and
differ only in `platform`, `kind`, `imageOptions` and `outFormat`.

### Product fixes

Four, all found by measurement while building the lane, each on its own
commit:

The linstor `drbd.enabled` gate. Without it drbd-logger sidecar exits,
satellite is never Ready, piraeus registers zero nodes and every PVC
hangs Pending behind a cluster that looks healthy.

linstor `--strict-topology`. Without it external-provisioner passes
every topology segment as `requisite`, so a node-pinned volume can be
provisioned away from its pod and the pod is then unschedulable forever
with nothing erroring anywhere.

kubevirt-cdi importer resources are configurable now. Default restates
CDI's own values exactly so production behaviour does not move, and the
lane raises the ceiling through its own Package.

vm-disk binds standalone disks immediately. A VMDisk on `local` silently
never populated, while the same disk on `replicated` did.

### Where the run stands

The lane has gone green twice, most recently on `cc70cef7b` where `E2E
(in-tree)` took 2h3m against its 215m cap with 45 Chainsaw tests
passing. The measurements quoted elsewhere in this description come from
the first of those runs, on a commit that has since been rebased away:
the two tenant-Kubernetes suites came in at 569.72s
(`kubernetes-latest`) and 470.19s (`kubernetes-previous`) against a 67m
operation. Both runs answer the four earlier reds, all of which were the
lua-protobuf segfault from #4012 once `vminstance`/`vmdisk` were fixed
on the branch.

ghcr.io mirror removal is carried here too and is the same change as
#4007, whichever lands first makes the other a no-op.

### What review changed

`drbd.enabled=false` now refuses to render together with
`talos.enabled=false`. It removed the logger sidecar only, while the two
DRBD initContainers piraeus contributes unconditionally are deleted by
the Talos configuration alone, so that combination produced a satellite
that can never reach Ready. `isp-full-generic` sets
`talos.enabled=false`, so it was reachable and not theoretical.

vm-disk keeps unconditional immediate binding, a standalone disk has no
consumer to wait for. What it costs on a node-pinned class is in the
chart README now, and the annotation is pinned per source type and on
the existing-DataVolume path where `helm upgrade` retrofits it.

The rest is the harness holding its own promises: HelmRelease gate reads
are bounded and its minimum-count half is pinned by a test that fails
without it, two Chainsaw ops sit above the deadlines they contain, the
fallback-StorageClass render restores `replicated` when it fails,
container lane compose project and pool files are per-checkout, and
three comments that said the opposite of the code now say what is true
(QEMU is still wired into nightly and e2e-tag, the lane replaces two
Packages and not one, the argument-count assertion cannot see upstream
drift).

### Release note

```release-note
fix(linstor): CSI provisioning is constrained to the node the scheduler chose (`--strict-topology`), and the DRBD sidecar can be switched off with `drbd.enabled` on substrates whose kernel cannot run DRBD. On an existing cluster the new default re-templates `spec.csiController.podTemplate`, so piraeus rolls `linstor-csi-controller` once during the upgrade. `drbd.enabled=false` requires `talos.enabled=true` and the chart now refuses the other combination at render time, because only the Talos satellite configuration removes the DRBD initContainers.
fix(kubevirt-cdi): CDI worker pod resources are configurable through `importerResources`, which reaches the importer, the uploader and the host-assisted cloner. The default restates CDI's own built-in values exactly, so an install that sets nothing behaves as before.
fix(vm-disk): every disk requests immediate binding, not only `upload` sources, so a standalone disk on a WaitForFirstConsumer StorageClass is populated instead of waiting for a consumer that may never arrive. On a node-pinned class such as `local` the volume then binds where CDI's worker pod was scheduled rather than where the VM will run; see the chart README before choosing such a class for VM disks. The default `replicated` is unaffected.
```

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
  * Added container-based end-to-end testing with local storage support.
* Added optional backup-access preflight checks for database backup
examples.
* Added configurable CDI worker resources and LINSTOR storage settings.
  * Added configurable immediate storage binding for VM disks.
* Added stronger readiness checks, diagnostics, and parallel test
execution.

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved cleanup failure reporting, capacity validation, and
missing-image detection.
* Improved FoundationDB health verification and storage placement
behavior.

* **Removed**
  * Removed GHCR mirror support and soft-red node-join tolerance.
  * Removed standalone OIDC render test suites.
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