DAOS-17007 ci: add weekly functional testing (#15726)

adds weekly testing that performs build (el8 & el9), functional VM tests (el8 & el9),
and MD on SSD functional hardware tests (el8)

Also improves fix for DAOS-16959

Run-GHA: true
Skip-func-hw-test-medium: true
Skip-func-hw-test-medium-verbs-provider: true
Skip-func-hw-test-large: true

Signed-off-by: Margaret Lawson <mlawsonca@google.com>

Author: mlawsonca

.github/actions/provision-cluster/action.yml

@@ -4,20 +4,28 @@ inputs:
   condition:
     description: Condition this should run on
     required: true
+  ref:
+    description: Ref for code checkout
+    default: "${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
+    required: false
 runs:
   using: "composite"
   steps:
     - name: Checkout code
       uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
-        ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+        ref: ${{ inputs.ref }}
     - name: Request and Provision a Cluster
       if: ${{ inputs.condition }}
       shell: bash
       run: |
           . ci/gha_functions.sh
           STAGE_NAME='${{ env.STAGE_NAME }}'
-          REQID='${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}-${{ github.run_number }}'
+          if "${{ github.event.schedule }}"; then
+            REQID='${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_number }}'
+          else
+            REQID='${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}-${{ github.run_number }}'
+          fi
           CP_PRIORITY=${{ env.CP_PRIORITY }}
           echo "::group::Provisioning"
           if ! JENKINS_URL='${{ env.JENKINS_URL }}'                   \
@@ -58,9 +66,12 @@ runs:
             inst_repos+=":${{ github.run_number }}"
         fi
         echo "::group::Post-provision configuration";
-        ARTIFACTS_URL="$ARTIFACTS_URL"                                    \
+        REPO_PATH="$REPO_PATH$GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER/artifact/artifacts/$TARGET"
+        ARTIFACTS_URL=$ARTIFACTS_URL                                      \
         INST_REPOS="$(eval echo "$inst_repos")"                           \
+        REPO_PATH=$REPO_PATH                                              \
         CI_RPM_TEST_VERSION="$rpm_test_version"                           \
         DAOS_VERSION="$DAOS_VERSION"                                      \
+        COVFN_DISABLED="$COVFN_DISABLED"                                  \
         DISTRO=$PROVISION_DISTRO ci/provisioning/post_provision_config.sh
         echo "::endgroup::"