- Moved imports from *.proto folder to common.proto folder
- Removed webui's genproto.sh script
- Minor code and linting fixing
- Arranged requirements to accelerate Docker image creation
- Updated Dockerfile
- Arranged GitLab CI/CD pipeline
- Corrected usage of ConfigRules to use new custom ConfigRules
- Moved config variables to new config framework
- Removed unneeded Config variables

- initial skeleton (not functional)

- defined unified constants for all micro-services
- defined common settings getter methods
- defined generic gRPC servicer
- defined generic Rest servicer
- defined common MockServicer for Monitoring component
- removed old common/tests MockService class; to be replaced by new generic gRPC servicer
- minor code formatting/styling

- monitoring/test_monitoring.py: provides a basic testing skeleton
- monitoring/requirements.in/.txt: updated with pytest
- monitoring/genproto.py: added instructions to import generated Python modules using "from . import ..." instead of "import ..."; otherwise, pytest and other possible modules doing imports might complain.
- monitoring/monitoring_server.py: packed start_server and stop_server functionaity to simplify test definition, minor formattings, bug resolutions and improvements in package import.
- monitoring/monitoring_client.py: minor formattings, bug resolutions, and improvements in package import.