Pod name is not visible in runner details page when using new runner registration workflow

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With the move to the new runner creation workflow, the runner description is only stored for the configuration in the server (ci_runners table), which is created either in the UI or through the POST /user/runners REST API. In the previous workflow, the Helm chart passed a description consisting of the pod name, which then allowed users to see the pod name in e.g. the runner details page:

registration token	runner creation in UI

To provide the same experience, we'd need to:

• Create a description column in the ci_runner_machines table, similar to the one in ci_runners.
• Pass the description used in gitlab-runner register back to the server to be incorporated in the ci_runner_machines table. Currently, the challenge is that the ci_runner_machines record is created in response to a POST /runners/verify API call, and it doesn't make sense to add a description in that API. The other API that triggers a creation of the ci_runner_machines record is the POST /jobs/request endpoint.
• Display the ci_runner_machines description in the runner manager rows, and possibly in other pages which are displaying the runner description.

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