CI: Set runners to ubuntu-24.04 (#6696)

* CI: Set runners to ubuntu-24.04 instead of ubuntu-latest
* Pin nightly job on ubuntu 22.04

.github/workflows/ci-code.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
 
   tests:
 
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 45
 
     strategy:
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ jobs:
 
   tests-presto:
 
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 20
 
     steps:
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ jobs:
 
   verdi:
 
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 10
 
     steps:

.github/workflows/docker-build-test.yml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
   build-and-test:
     if: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.fork }}
     name: build and test amd64 images
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 60
     defaults:
       run:

.github/workflows/docs-build.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
 
   docs-linkcheck:
 
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 30
 
     steps:

.github/workflows/nightly.yml

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
   nightly-tests:
 
     if: github.repository == 'aiidateam/aiida-core'      # Prevent running the builds on forks as well
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     services:
       postgres:
@@ -70,12 +70,11 @@ jobs:
         from-lock: 'true'
 
     - name: Setup environment
-      # NOTE: virtual env in .venv created by uv in previous step
-      run: source .venv/bin/activate && .github/workflows/setup.sh
+      run: .github/workflows/setup.sh
 
     - name: Run tests
       id: tests
-      run: source .venv/bin/activate && .github/workflows/tests_nightly.sh
+      run: .github/workflows/tests_nightly.sh
 
     - name: Slack notification
       # Always run this step (otherwise it would be skipped if any of the previous steps fail) but only if the
@@ -95,7 +94,7 @@ jobs:
   # Run a subset of test suite to ensure compatibility with latest RabbitMQ releases
   rabbitmq-tests:
 
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 10
 
     strategy:

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
 
     # Only run this job on the main repository and not on forks
     if: github.repository == 'aiidateam/aiida-core'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
   pre-commit:
 
     needs: [check-release-tag]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 30
 
     steps:
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
   tests:
 
     needs: [check-release-tag]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 30
 
     services:
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ jobs:
 
     needs: [check-release-tag, pre-commit, tests]
 
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
     - name: Checkout source

.github/workflows/test-install.yml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
     # Note: The specification is also validated by the pre-commit hook.
 
     if: github.repository == 'aiidateam/aiida-core'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 5
 
     steps:
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
 
     needs: [validate-dependency-specification]
     if: github.repository == 'aiidateam/aiida-core'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 5
 
     steps:
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ jobs:
   install-with-pip:
 
     if: github.repository == 'aiidateam/aiida-core'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 15
 
     strategy:
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ jobs:
     # Verify that we can install AiiDA with conda.
 
     if: github.repository == 'aiidateam/aiida-core'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 25
 
     strategy:
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ jobs:
   tests:
 
     needs: [install-with-pip]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 45
 
     strategy: