ci: keep provider cert when setting up director

[KauzClay]

(already flown)

I believe as part of cloudfoundry/bosh-cli#725 (bosh-cli v7.10.4), the cert handling changed in the CLI

from what AI tells me, in the CLI code now, when cloud_provider.cert is absent (because remove-provider-cert.yml removes it), the certPool is nil → the client falls back to verifying against system roots. The BOSH bootstrap agent's cert is signed by the private default_ca, which is not in the system root store → x509: certificate signed by unknown authority.

this shows up like this:
https://bosh.ci.cloudfoundry.org/teams/main/pipelines/bosh-aws-cpi/jobs/bats/builds/223
https://bosh.ci.cloudfoundry.org/teams/main/pipelines/bosh-aws-cpi/jobs/end-2-end/builds/146

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Walkthrough

This pull request updates the CI pipeline configuration in ci/pipeline.yml by modifying the optional operation files used during the prepare-director step in two pipeline jobs. The bats job now includes health monitor removal and external IP registry operations instead of provider certificate removal. The end-2-end job replaces provider certificate removal with the external IP registry operation. These changes affect which BOSH operations are applied when preparing the director for each job's testing scenario.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately reflects the main change: keeping the provider certificate when setting up the director, which directly addresses the core issue of removing the remove-provider-cert.yml operation.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check	✅ Passed	The pull request description clearly explains the certificate-handling regression introduced in bosh-cli v7.10.4 and directly relates to the changeset that removes remove-provider-cert.yml operations.

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