test: add integration test for module

add a test which installs ramalama-stack: https://github.com/containers/ramalama-stack

which is one of our validated external providers: https://llama-stack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/providers/external.html

Signed-off-by: Charlie Doern <cdoern@redhat.com>

.github/workflows/test-external-provider-module.yml

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+name: Test External Providers Installed via Module
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ main ]
+    paths:
+      - 'llama_stack/**'
+      - 'tests/integration/**'
+      - 'uv.lock'
+      - 'pyproject.toml'
+      - 'requirements.txt'
+      - '.github/workflows/test-external-providers-module.yml' # This workflow
+
+jobs:
+  test-external-providers-from-module:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        image-type: [venv]
+        # We don't do container yet, it's tricky to install a package from the host into the
+        # container and point 'uv pip install' to the correct path...
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        uses: ./.github/actions/setup-runner
+
+      - name: Install Ramalama
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          uv pip install ramalama
+
+      - name: Run Ramalama
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          nohup ramalama serve llama3.2:3b-instruct-fp16  > ramalama_server.log 2>&1 &
+      - name: Apply image type to config file
+        run: |
+          yq -i '.image_type = "${{ matrix.image-type }}"' tests/external/ramalama-stack/run.yaml
+          cat tests/external/ramalama-stack/run.yaml
+
+      - name: Build distro from config file
+        run: |
+          USE_COPY_NOT_MOUNT=true LLAMA_STACK_DIR=. llama stack build --config tests/external/ramalama-stack/build.yaml
+
+      - name: Start Llama Stack server in background
+        if: ${{ matrix.image-type }} == 'venv'
+        env:
+          INFERENCE_MODEL: "llama3.2:3b-instruct-fp16"
+        run: |
+          # Use the virtual environment created by the build step (name comes from build config)
+          source ramalama-stack-test/bin/activate
+          uv pip list
+          nohup llama stack run tests/external/ramalama-stack/run.yaml --image-type ${{ matrix.image-type }} > server.log 2>&1 &
+
+      - name: Wait for Llama Stack server to be ready
+        run: |
+          for i in {1..30}; do
+            if ! grep -q "successfully connected to Ramalama" server.log; then
+              echo "Waiting for Llama Stack server to load the provider..."
+              sleep 1
+            else
+              echo "Provider loaded"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+          done
+          echo "Provider failed to load"
+          cat server.log
+          exit 1