Move golangci-lint for VPA to its own job

Author: adrianmoisey

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -43,12 +43,6 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GO111MODULE: auto
 
-      - name: golangci-lint - vertical-pod-autoscaler
-        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v8
-        with:
-          args: --timeout=30m
-          working-directory: ${{ env.GOPATH }}/src/k8s.io/autoscaler/vertical-pod-autoscaler
-
       - name: Test
         working-directory: ${{ env.GOPATH }}/src/k8s.io/autoscaler
         run: hack/for-go-proj.sh test

.github/workflows/vpa-golangci-lint.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: Tests
+
+on:
+  - push:
+    paths:
+      - 'vertical-pod-autoscaler/**'
+  - pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - 'vertical-pod-autoscaler/**'
+
+env:
+  GOPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/go
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  golangci:
+    name: lint
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@v6
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.0'
+          cache-dependency-path: |
+             ${{ env.GOPATH}}/src/k8s.io/autoscaler/vertical-pod-autoscaler/go.sum
+             ${{ env.GOPATH}}/src/k8s.io/autoscaler/vertical-pod-autoscaler/e2e/go.sum
+
+      - name: golangci-lint - vertical-pod-autoscaler
+        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v8
+        with:
+          args: --timeout=30m
+          working-directory: ${{ env.GOPATH }}/src/k8s.io/autoscaler/vertical-pod-autoscaler