CI: streamline packet jobs definition

- Take advantage of `parallel:matrix` to make the jobs definition shorter
  and more readable.
- Remove helper scripts which are no longer needed
- Remove redundant indirection in the gitlab-ci pipelines definitions
  (only one user)

tests/files/fedora40-docker-calico.yml

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+---
+# Instance settings
+cloud_image: fedora-40
+
+# Kubespray settings
+auto_renew_certificates: true
+
+# Docker specific settings:
+container_manager: docker
+etcd_deployment_type: docker