Bringing in changes from previous PR on Running automated tests via CICD

The previous PR commit history got messed up due to rebasing to handle the commits that had missing signoffs.
Created a new PR to bring over the final changes from there.

PR link: EVerest#62

Signed-off-by: Mahadik, Mukul Chandrakant <MukulChandrakant.Mahadik@nrel.gov>

.github/workflows/cicd.yaml

@@ -94,8 +94,31 @@ jobs:
           username: ${{ github.actor }}
           password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
+      - name: Build and export to Docker
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
+        with:
+          load: true
+          context: ${{ matrix.context }}
+          push: false
+          tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
+          labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
+          cache-from: type=gha,scope=${{ matrix.image_name }}
+          cache-to: type=gha,mode=max,scope=${{ matrix.image_name }}
+
+      - name: Run automated tests using docker-compose.automated-tests.yml
+        if: ${{ matrix.image_name == 'manager' }}
+        run: |
+          echo "Running docker compose up..."
+          docker compose --project-name everest-ac-demo \
+                  --file "docker-compose.automated-tests.yml" up \
+                    --abort-on-container-exit \
+                    --exit-code-from manager
+
+          exit_code=$?            
+          echo "Docker-compose up exit code from manager service: $exit_code"
+      
       - name: Build and push
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
         with:
           context: ${{ matrix.context }}
           push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}