Workflow / ENH: Add SSH into our runners workflow (#30425)

* add SSH into our runners workflow

* fix

* fix

* fix

* use our previous approaches

* forward contrib credits from discussions

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Co-authored-by: Yih-Dar <ydshieh@users.noreply.github.com>

.github/workflows/ssh-runner.yml

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+name: SSH into our runners
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      runner_type:
+        description: 'Type of runner to test (a10 or t4)'
+        required: true 
+      docker_image:
+        description: 'Name of the Docker image'
+        required: true
+
+env:
+  IS_GITHUB_CI: "1"
+  HF_HUB_READ_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_HUB_READ_TOKEN }}
+  HF_HOME: /mnt/cache 
+  TRANSFORMERS_IS_CI: yes 
+  OMP_NUM_THREADS: 8 
+  MKL_NUM_THREADS: 8 
+  RUN_SLOW: yes # For gated repositories, we still need to agree to share information on the Hub repo. page in order to get access. # This token is created under the bot `hf-transformers-bot`. 
+  SIGOPT_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SIGOPT_API_TOKEN }} 
+  TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH: true 
+  RUN_PT_TF_CROSS_TESTS: 1
+
+jobs:
+  ssh_runner:
+    name: SSH
+    runs-on: [single-gpu, nvidia-gpu, ${{ github.event.inputs.runner_type }}, ci]
+    container:
+      image: ${{ github.event.inputs.docker_image }}
+      options: --gpus all --privileged --ipc host -v /mnt/cache/.cache/huggingface:/mnt/cache/
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Update clone
+        working-directory: /transformers
+        run: |
+          git fetch && git checkout ${{ github.sha }}
+
+      - name: Cleanup
+        working-directory: /transformers
+        run: |
+          rm -rf tests/__pycache__
+          rm -rf tests/models/__pycache__
+          rm -rf reports
+
+      - name: Show installed libraries and their versions
+        working-directory: /transformers
+        run: pip freeze
+      
+      - name: NVIDIA-SMI
+        run: |
+          nvidia-smi
+      
+      - name: Tailscale # In order to be able to SSH when a test fails
+        uses: huggingface/tailscale-action@v1
+        with:
+          authkey: ${{ secrets.TAILSCALE_SSH_AUTHKEY }}
+          slackChannel: ${{ secrets.SLACK_CIFEEDBACK_CHANNEL }}
+          slackToken: ${{ secrets.SLACK_CIFEEDBACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
+          waitForSSH: true