Manual backport of [NET-11150] ci: fix conditional skip and add safeguard into release/1.6.0 #3599

Job	Run time
conditional-skip / Check whether to skip build and tests	4s
get-product-version	4s
get-go-version / Determine Go toolchain version	5s
generate-metadata-file	22s
Go 1.22.7 linux arm build	1m 18s
Go 1.22.7 linux arm64 build	1m 18s
Go 1.22.7 linux 386 build	1m 25s
Go 1.22.7 linux amd64 build	1m 22s
Go 1.22.7 linux amd64 +fips1402 build	1m 44s
Go 1.22.7 linux arm64 +fips1402 build	1m 38s
Go 1.22.7 darwin amd64 build	1m 10s
Go 1.22.7 darwin arm64 build	1m 17s
Docker amd64 UBI build for DockerHub	1m 34s
Docker UBI Image Build (for Red Hat Certified Container Registry)	1m 37s
Docker amd64 +fips1402 UBI build for DockerHub	1m 36s
Docker +fips1402 UBI Image Build (for Red Hat Certified Container Registry)	1m 27s
Docker amd64 default release build	1m 28s
Docker amd64 +fips1402 default release build	1m 38s
Docker arm64 default release build	10m 15s
Docker arm64 +fips1402 default release build	10m 24s
Integration Tests (Consul v1.15.0-dev release-default)	1m 56s
Integration Tests (Consul v1.15.0-dev release-ubi)	1m 59s
Integration Tests (Consul v1.18.0-dev release-default)	1m 51s
Integration Tests (Consul v1.18.0-dev release-ubi)	1m 47s
Integration Tests (Consul v1.19.0-dev release-default)	1m 47s
Integration Tests (Consul v1.19.0-dev release-ubi)	1m 59s
Integration Tests (Consul v1.20.0-dev release-default)	2m 0s
Integration Tests (Consul v1.20.0-dev release-ubi)	1m 51s
integration-tests-success	1s
	56m 57s

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