change: [UIE-9888] - Make firewall selection mandatory while creating linode and its interfaces

[grevanak-akamai]

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Make firewall selection mandatory while creating linode and its interfaces. If there are no firewalls or user doesn't wants to assign a firewall to a linode, No firewall option can be selected but the firewall field cannot be left blank.

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[grevanak-akamai]

API accepts both -1 and null to not to assign a firewall to a linode and hence firewall field has been made mandatory in UI.

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Cloud Manager UI test results

🔺 8 failing tests on test run #3 ↗︎

❌ Failing	✅ Passing	↪️ Skipped	🕐 Duration
8 Failing	856 Passing	11 Skipped	69m 35s

Details

Failing Tests
	Spec	Test
❌	backup-linode.spec.ts	Cloud Manager Cypress Tests→linode backups » can capture a manual snapshot
❌	create-linode-with-firewall.spec.ts	Cloud Manager Cypress Tests→Create Linode with Firewall (Linode Interfaces) » can generate and assign a compliant Firewall during Linode Create flow (legacy)
❌	create-stackscripts.spec.ts	Cloud Manager Cypress Tests→Create stackscripts » creates a StackScript and deploys a Linode with it
❌	create-stackscripts.spec.ts	Cloud Manager Cypress Tests→Create stackscripts » creates a StackScript with Any/All target image
❌	smoke-community-stackscripts.spec.ts	Cloud Manager Cypress Tests→Community Stackscripts integration tests » deploys a new linode as expected
❌	clone-linode.spec.ts	Cloud Manager Cypress Tests→clone linode » can clone a Linode from Linode details page
❌	clone-linode.spec.ts	Cloud Manager Cypress Tests→clone linode » can clone a Linode with null type
❌	create-linode.spec.ts	Cloud Manager Cypress Tests→Create Linode→End-to-end→By plan type » creates a Shared CPU Linode

Troubleshooting

Use this command to re-run the failing tests:

pnpm cy:run -s "cypress/e2e/core/linodes/backup-linode.spec.ts,cypress/e2e/core/linodes/create-linode-with-firewall.spec.ts,cypress/e2e/core/stackscripts/create-stackscripts.spec.ts,cypress/e2e/core/stackscripts/smoke-community-stackscripts.spec.ts,cypress/e2e/core/linodes/clone-linode.spec.ts,cypress/e2e/core/linodes/create-linode.spec.ts"