Backport 'always-build-qa-image-for-release-environments' to 17.5
What does this MR do and why?
Describe in detail what merge request is being backported and why
Backport !174120 (merged) to always build QA image together with the release-environments deployment job.
Ref: gitlab-com/gl-infra/delivery#20737 (closed)
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