Improve unit test workflow reliability with timeouts and better CI configuration

Co-authored-by: jpayne3506 <[email protected]>

Author: Copilot

.github/workflows/unit-tests.yaml

@@ -22,12 +22,21 @@ jobs:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
     name: Unit Tests
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 30
     steps:
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
           go-version: ${{ matrix.go-version }}
+          cache: true
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Setup test environment
+        run: |
+          go version
+          go env
+      - name: Download dependencies
+        run: go mod download
       - name: Run unit tests
         run: make test-all
+        timeout-minutes: 25

Makefile

@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ RESTART_CASE ?= false
 CNI_TYPE ?= cilium
 
 test-all: ## run all unit tests.
-	go test -mod=readonly -buildvcs=false -tags "unit" --skip 'TestE2E*' -race -covermode atomic -coverprofile=coverage-all.out $(COVER_PKG)/...
+	go test -mod=readonly -buildvcs=false -tags "unit" --skip 'TestE2E*' -race -covermode atomic -coverprofile=coverage-all.out -timeout=20m $(COVER_PKG)/...
 	go tool cover -func=coverage-all.out
 
 test-integration: ## run all integration tests.