[Backport standard-runners]: Backports PRs #187 #188 #189 #190

[ulucinar]

Description of your changes

Backports PRs #187 #188 #189 #190 to the standard-runners branch. We will be maintaining this branch until #135 is merged (being able to pass only hosted runner labels as the parameter values poses a serious limitation to this approach, especially if we also have OCI runners).

I have:

• Run make reviewable test to ensure this PR is ready for review.

How has this code been tested

Following diff is the diff between this PR's feature branch & head of upstream/main:

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-comment-trigger.yml b/.github/workflows/pr-comment-trigger.yml
index 25f52a0..a5610c3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr-comment-trigger.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr-comment-trigger.yml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   debug:
-    runs-on: [e2-standard-8, linux]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
       - name: Debug
         run: |
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ jobs:
     if: ${{ (github.event.comment.author_association == 'OWNER' || github.event.comment.author_association == 'MEMBER' || github.event.comment.author_association == 'COLLABORATOR' || github.event.comment.author_association == 'CONTRIBUTOR' ) &&
             github.event.issue.pull_request &&
             contains(github.event.comment.body, inputs.trigger-keyword ) }}
-    runs-on: [e2-standard-8, linux]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     outputs:
       example_list: ${{ steps.get-example-list-name.outputs.example-list }}
       example_hash: ${{ steps.get-example-list-name.outputs.example-hash }}
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ jobs:
     if: ${{ (github.event.comment.author_association == 'OWNER' || github.event.comment.author_association == 'MEMBER' || github.event.comment.author_association == 'COLLABORATOR' || github.event.comment.author_association == 'CONTRIBUTOR' ) &&
       github.event.issue.pull_request &&
       contains(github.event.comment.body, inputs.trigger-keyword ) }}
-    runs-on: [e2-standard-8, linux]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     needs: get-example-list
 
     steps:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/provider-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/provider-ci.yml
index da9715c..46f427f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/provider-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/provider-ci.yml
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           make schema-version-diff
   lint:
-    runs-on: Ubuntu-Jumbo-Runner
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     needs: detect-noop
     if: needs.detect-noop.outputs.noop != 'true' && !inputs.golangci-skip
 
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ jobs:
         run: make local-deploy
 
   publish-artifacts:
-    runs-on: [e2-standard-8, linux]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     needs: detect-noop
     if: needs.detect-noop.outputs.noop != 'true'
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/provider-publish-service-artifacts.yml b/.github/workflows/provider-publish-service-artifacts.yml
index 28e91f5..c43483b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/provider-publish-service-artifacts.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/provider-publish-service-artifacts.yml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ env:
   
 jobs:
   index:
-    runs-on: [e2-standard-8, linux]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     outputs:
       indices: ${{ steps.calc.outputs.indices }}
     steps:
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ jobs:
         index: ${{ fromJSON(needs.index.outputs.indices) }}
 
     needs: index
-    runs-on: [e2-standard-8, linux]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
       - name: Setup QEMU
         uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@2b82ce82d56a2a04d2637cd93a637ae1b359c0a7 # v2

[sergenyalcin]

Thanks @ulucinar LGTM!