How could we reduce CI timeouts with caching? #2575
Description
Problem
In CI, we experience failures for PEXEX on a somewhat regular basis across ~80 test cases (for upstream and unicorn flavors). One cause of failures that we identified was with test environment setup as opposed to the test itself. Sometimes, installing k3d or running npm install will result in failures due to connectivity issues.
Focus
We may be able to use caching or a new runner images with those tools already present to avoid potential timeouts in CI that force us to retry PEXEX tests.
Goal
This spike should consider our options and enable us to choose a path forward to avoid k3d or npm install failures in CI.