Official MLflow docker image support - slim & full version

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Related Issues/PRs

#9513 #10424

What changes are proposed in this pull request?

Introducing two docker images, one MLflow-slim version with no extra dependencies, and one MLflow version with DB and storage related dependencies such as postgres or AWS S3 (boto3).

Credit to bukarince, since I heavily based the testing framework on his approach.

How is this PR tested?

• [ ] Existing unit/integration tests
• [x] New unit/integration tests
• [ ] Manual tests

Does this PR require documentation update?

• [ ] No. You can skip the rest of this section.
• [x] Yes. I've updated:
  • [ ] Examples
  • [ ] API references
  • [x] Instructions

Release Notes

Is this a user-facing change?

• [ ] No. You can skip the rest of this section.
• [x] Yes. Give a description of this change to be included in the release notes for MLflow users.

Introduced two docker images, one MLflow-slim version with no extra dependencies, and one MLflow version with DB and storage related dependencies such as postgres or AWS S3 (boto3).

What component(s), interfaces, languages, and integrations does this PR affect?

Components

• [ ] area/artifacts: Artifact stores and artifact logging
• [ ] area/build: Build and test infrastructure for MLflow
• [ ] area/deployments: MLflow Deployments client APIs, server, and third-party Deployments integrations
• [x] area/docs: MLflow documentation pages
• [ ] area/examples: Example code
• [ ] area/model-registry: Model Registry service, APIs, and the fluent client calls for Model Registry
• [ ] area/models: MLmodel format, model serialization/deserialization, flavors
• [ ] area/recipes: Recipes, Recipe APIs, Recipe configs, Recipe Templates
• [ ] area/projects: MLproject format, project running backends
• [ ] area/scoring: MLflow Model server, model deployment tools, Spark UDFs
• [ ] area/server-infra: MLflow Tracking server backend
• [ ] area/tracking: Tracking Service, tracking client APIs, autologging

Interface

• [ ] area/uiux: Front-end, user experience, plotting, JavaScript, JavaScript dev server
• [ ] area/docker: Docker use across MLflow's components, such as MLflow Projects and MLflow Models
• [ ] area/sqlalchemy: Use of SQLAlchemy in the Tracking Service or Model Registry
• [ ] area/windows: Windows support

Language

• [ ] language/r: R APIs and clients
• [ ] language/java: Java APIs and clients
• [ ] language/new: Proposals for new client languages

Integrations

• [ ] integrations/azure: Azure and Azure ML integrations
• [ ] integrations/sagemaker: SageMaker integrations
• [ ] integrations/databricks: Databricks integrations

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• [ ] rn/none - No description will be included. The PR will be mentioned only by the PR number in the "Small Bugfixes and Documentation Updates" section
• [ ] rn/breaking-change - The PR will be mentioned in the "Breaking Changes" section
• [x] rn/feature - A new user-facing feature worth mentioning in the release notes
• [ ] rn/bug-fix - A user-facing bug fix worth mentioning in the release notes
• [ ] rn/documentation - A user-facing documentation change worth mentioning in the release notes

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