ABC/ORA Pipeline Updates

Background

We need to remove our gate checks in the pipeline to accommodate ABCs/ORA updates. These need to initially be hidden behind a feature flag, so the prod pipelines remain unchanged, and can avoid the gate checks in staging/testing.

Acceptance Criteria

• Gate checks (image approval status, Check CVE's) can optionally be are skipped by providing a CI variable.

Definition of Done

• Can run a pipeline with and without the VAT associated gate checks