GitLab CI Pipeline to Deploy a Blank VM with Custom Parameters

Create a GitLab CI/CD pipeline to deploy a blank Virtual Machine (VM) on an OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure. The pipeline will allow users to:

Deploy the VM using either the newly built Packer image or a pre-existing base image.

Specify deployment parameters such as VM flavor, network, security group, SSH key, floating IP association, and instance name.

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assigned to @krish94

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itital work in https://gitlab.rc.uab.edu/krish94/openstack-user-defined-instance-provisioner Will submit a PR against https://gitlab.rc.uab.edu/rc/hpc-factory

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