chore: build improvements

[ADD-SP]

REBASE AND MERGE

Summary

Cherry-picked from https://github.com/Kong/kong-ee/pull/10624, excluding the changes about the git submodules as CE has no git submodules.

Checklist

• [N/A] The Pull Request has tests
• [N/A] A changelog file has been created under changelog/unreleased/kong or skip-changelog label added on PR if changelog is unnecessary. README.md
• [N/A] There is a user-facing docs PR against https://github.com/Kong/docs.konghq.com - PUT DOCS PR HERE

Issue reference

KAG-5571, KAG-5751

[ADD-SP]

full matrix: https://github.com/Kong/kong/actions/runs/11773907426/job/32791861971?pr=13856

[team-gateway-bot]

Cherry-pick failed for master, because it was unable to cherry-pick the commit(s).

Please cherry-pick the changes locally.

git remote add upstream https://github.com/kong/kong-ee
git fetch upstream master
git worktree add -d .worktree/cherry-pick-13856-to-master-to-upstream upstream/master
cd .worktree/cherry-pick-13856-to-master-to-upstream
git checkout -b cherry-pick-13856-to-master-to-upstream
ancref=$(git merge-base 7e9dbf99f1dc577556e9dba07d739883939ae22d 4a521a88e2288c95a080d2a17550940a774be430)
git cherry-pick -x $ancref..4a521a88e2288c95a080d2a17550940a774be430