- removed unneeded stages

- reduced dependencies since it breaks pipeline

- updated pipeline to meet requirements and dependencies

- Converted load_gen tool into a microservice
- Added simple WebUI page to manage it
- Created manifests, Dockerfile, etc.
- Created proto file to manage the load generator

- updated CI/CD pipeline

- deactivated CI/CD pipeline for DLT. It was activated by mistake

- implemented preliminary version of CI/CD pipeline definition for DLT (still not integrated in pipeline)

- activated GitLab CI/CD to adjust the component