Merge v8.0 into master

Test contributions from master
Fix permission for devops-stages files (+x)
Adding the repository to CI/CD pipeline
Adding VIM to OSM option
Adding BRANCH_NAME variable for release tests
Adding prometheus_host env variable for ci/cd

git cherry-pick -n e1a9c570^..72556ca8

Author: Felipe Vicens <felipe.vicens@atos.net>
Signed-off-by: beierlm <mark.beierl@canonical.com>

Adds test EPA-01 for SR-IOV

Signed-off-by: garciaale <agarcia@whitestack.com>

Retry vim-create

Sometimes it appears that the vim-create command gets issued
before LCM is properly ready, so as a workaround, this tries
a number of times to create the VIM before giving up.

Signed-off-by: beierlm <mark.beierl@canonical.com>

Fixing Logic

Breaks out of the loop once the vim is enabled

Signed-off-by: Mark Beierl <mark.beierl@canonical.com>

Added test [K8s-04] OpenLDAP

Signed-off-by: ramonsalguer <javier.ramon@telefonica.com>

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Signed-off-by: Mark Beierl <mark.beierl@canonical.com>
Change-Id: Id436df42b735aa856e946c5c693f291bd0ba2d44