- Add `deploy_user_defined_vm` job for configurable VM provisioning
- Implement dynamic OpenStack CLI command construction supporting:
  * Image selection by name/UUID via $VM_IMAGE
  * Flavor specification with $VM_FLAVOR
  * Security group array input ($VM_SECURITY_GROUPS)
  * Network/port options ($VM_NETWORK/$VM_PORT)
  * Floating IP association ($VM_FLOATING_IPS)
- Require core variables: VM_IMAGE, VM_FLAVOR, VM_SECURITY_GROUPS, VM_INSTANCE_NAME
- Add pipeline rule trigger via $DEPLOY_VM == "true"

Feat gl cicd var scripts

Closes #232

See merge request !196

Feat deploy ood

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!193

This MR merges the feat-hpc-factory branch, which was focused on building and deploying proxy images for the COD cluster.

Closes #181, #203, #173, #176, and #175

See merge request !117

Use BUILD_TAG for image build if set, else fallback to BUILD_DATE

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!192

fix: use ENV variable in ansible var url

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!191

fix: bash syntax error

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!190

refactor: only run build pipeline in build environment

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!189

Since build env is setup for building images, it makes more sense to
have all build jobs in that environment.

ci: Add OOD image build job to gitlab CI

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!171

# Conflicts:
#   openstack-ood/variables.pkr.hcl

We do not run merge request pipeline, so no need to check for it

Resolve SSH proxy routing hang in prod by fixing dual IP assignment on same network.

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!175

Closes rc/hpc-factory#181

Defining a network can be optional when a port is already defined when
deploying a VM.

This commit adds flexibility where you can either use --port or
--network options to define a network during the deployment.

Alternatively, you can define both but the port cannot be from the same
network you used in the --network option. Otherwise, you will have two
ips from the same network which will cause network reachability issues.

Enable rsyslog configuration by default

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!183

fix: restart firewalld only when it was running

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!188

fix: restart firewalld after change

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!187

fix node exporter with firewalld enabled

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!186

feat: Add a way to define multiple security groups

See merge request !176

Add node exporter

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!184

Changed the 'enable_rsyslog_config' variable from false to true
This should be the default behavior for all nodes unless explicitly turned off by the developer.

feat: disable fail2ban by default

See merge request rc/hpc-factory!180

Install and configure fail2ban

See merge request !178