Chore: use the MS playwright image for e2e testing in CI (#11607)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 3c567fbefe12acf62b6d60dc805005e87cbf4d9d..f8eb6c83227f692747a3c1f07b37a8770ca6db4b 100644 (file)
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -275,8 +275,12 @@ jobs:
   tests-frontend-e2e:
     name: "Frontend E2E Tests (Node ${{ matrix.node-version }} - ${{ matrix.shard-index }}/${{ matrix.shard-count }})"
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    container: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.57.0-noble
     needs:
       - install-frontend-dependencies
+    env:
+      PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH: /ms-playwright
+      PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD: 1
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -305,19 +309,8 @@ jobs:
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-frontenddeps-${{ hashFiles('src-ui/pnpm-lock.yaml') }}
       - name: Re-link Angular cli
         run: cd src-ui && pnpm link @angular/cli
-      - name: Cache Playwright browsers
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: ~/.cache/ms-playwright
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-playwright-${{ hashFiles('src-ui/pnpm-lock.yaml') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            ${{ runner.os }}-playwright-
-      - name: Install Playwright system dependencies
-        run: npx playwright install-deps
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: cd src-ui && pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile
-      - name: Install Playwright
-        run: cd src-ui && pnpm exec playwright install
       - name: Run Playwright e2e tests
         run: cd src-ui && pnpm exec playwright test --shard ${{ matrix.shard-index }}/${{ matrix.shard-count }}
   frontend-bundle-analysis: