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Build QA image on stable branch pipelines (in canonical)

Graeme Gillies requested to merge ggillies/build-qa-image-stable-branch into master

What does this MR do and why?

Part of gitlab-com/gl-infra/delivery#2825 (closed)

As part of the release environments epic gitlab-com/gl-infra&837 (closed) we have release environments running the version of GitLab for each stable branch we support (currently last three stable branches).

In order to validate that any fixes developers merge to stable branches not only deploys correctly, but passes QA, we want to run QA against the release-environments after they have been deployed to successfully.

The first step for this, is to build the QA image needed to run the tests (and the test code of the specific version of GitLab) on the stable branch pipelines themselves. This way they can be consumed later in a job that runs QA against the release-environments (to be implemented later).

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