chore: improve test environment for upcoming features #1054
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In #1052 and in some previous PRs, we've had to wait for a release to test new features on
latest
.This PR allows contributors and CI (via either command-line flags or env variables) to define the image and tag to test against, and removes references to older python test environments.
Since
nightly
might be unstable I've added it toallow_failures
so it's not blocking but at least provides some feedback on new features. This can later be combined with@skipif
(or similar) to run tests only against versions equal or higher than a specific GitLab version to improve development for upcoming features.