Don't make external requests

Closes #38045

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21161

Use the local server to serve badges instead.

For the group badge case, it seems we require a project path to serve a
badge, so I had to create a project

Fixes https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/38045

Note in QA Resources doc that API resources are paginated

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21154

In using_docker_images.md, explicitly document that manually Base64-encoded...

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20925

In using_docker_images.md, explicitly document that manually Base64-encoded auth. info needs to be wrapped in a Docker JSON config. structure, not used bare, for the value of DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG.

Merge branch '2109-add-documentation-regarding-new-application-setting-that-allows-only-admins-to-remove-projects-docs' into 'master'

Docs - move section about  default project deletion protection

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!19821

Docs - Geo admin area showing 404 error for a secondary node

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20513

Update recommended base AWS instance to reflect current and more cost effective m5 EC2 instance

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21020

Unify finding an actor in the internal API

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20788

Update docs style guide to recommend avoiding Latin phrases

Closes technical-writing#77

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21046

Add 2k architecture to HA docs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21063

Status: work in progress
Issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/quality/performance/issues/58

Make import/no-cycle ESLint rule an error

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21110

Only check for blacklisted IPs on Git requests

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20828

Fix promote issue to epic spec

Closes #35880

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21077

Update redirect milestone 12.7 => 13.0

Closes #37932

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21064

Plural

Add package remote level table

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20406

Docs: update "branch from issue" documentation

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21118

Fix unsupported routes in Rails 6

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20896

Reuse the `Support::GitAccessActor` to find an actor for the internal
API.

That way we're a bit closer to having a single way of accessing the
user.

Optimise avatar requests

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20847

Use direct model update instead of using TodoService for GraphQL Todo API

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20551

Add RBAC permissions for getting knative version

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20244

docs: Fix little typo

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21128

Fix typo: necessery -> necessary

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21138

Respect the timezone reported from Gitaly for commits

Closes #37385

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21066

Refactor Branch related services to move to `branches` folder

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21012

Migrate monitoring specs to Jest + VTU

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20805

Simplify ee_component resolution

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!21109

Deploy to Kubernetes namespace specified in CI template

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20686