ci: cherry-pick workflow and container build improvements#957

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ci: remove redundant usages of the free-disk-space action

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ci: Add attempt number to the workflow run name, and URL in the slack message (#941)

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ci: register a dummy test_build_images workflow which will be completed in a separate PR (#947)
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Use our build-repo for Maven downloads & other updates (#953)

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ci: Fix static analysis errors (#955)

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ci(build): stagger the scheduled builds to ease load on external systems (#954)
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