Merge branch 'main' into fix/701-unify-performance-and-benchmark-testing-pipelines

Author: OtowoSamuel

.github/CI_COMMANDS.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ## Overview
 
 This document describes the optimized CI/CD pipeline architecture introduced
-to address issues #663, #664, #665, and #666.
+to address issues #700, #701, #703, and #714.
 
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ All reusable logic lives under `.github/actions/`:
 
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-## Core CI Workflows (#663)
+## Core CI Workflows (#700)
 
 ### `ci.yml`
 - **Change detection** gates expensive jobs (helm-lint, api-docs, examples-smoke-test,
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ the critical path by ~35–40% compared to the previous sequential layout.
 
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-## Heavy Validation Workflows (#666)
+## Heavy Validation Workflows (#703)
 
 ### `chaos-tests.yml`
 - **Extracted** cluster provisioning into `setup-kind-cluster` composite action.

.github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml

@@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ runs:
       run: |
         sudo apt-get update -qq
         sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+          cmake \
+          pkg-config \
+          libssl-dev \
           libsasl2-dev \
-          libcurl4-openssl-dev \
-          pkg-config
+          libcurl4-openssl-dev
 
     - name: Setup Rust cache
       uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2