diff --git a/.bingo/Variables.mk b/.bingo/Variables.mk
index 56a916a0d25..80b5946b497 100644
--- a/.bingo/Variables.mk
+++ b/.bingo/Variables.mk
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ GOPATH ?= $(shell go env GOPATH)
 GOBIN  ?= $(firstword $(subst :, ,${GOPATH}))/bin
 GO     ?= $(shell which go)
 
+# Add this near the top of the file, after the initial variable definitions
+ifndef VARIABLES_MK
+VARIABLES_MK := 1
+
 # Below generated variables ensure that every time a tool under each variable is invoked, the correct version
 # will be used; reinstalling only if needed.
 # For example for bra variable:
@@ -65,3 +69,4 @@ $(SWAGGER): $(BINGO_DIR)/swagger.mod
 	@echo "(re)installing $(GOBIN)/swagger-v0.30.6-0.20240310114303-db51e79a0e37"
 	@cd $(BINGO_DIR) && GOWORK=off $(GO) build -mod=mod -modfile=swagger.mod -o=$(GOBIN)/swagger-v0.30.6-0.20240310114303-db51e79a0e37 "github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger/cmd/swagger"
 
+endif
diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index fc8c0e3187e..7cb1d2adc70 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -444,6 +444,7 @@
 /.betterer.eslint.config.js @grafana/frontend-ops
 /.gitattributes @grafana/frontend-ops
 /.gitignore @grafana/frontend-ops
+/.ignore @grafana/frontend-ops
 /.nvmrc @grafana/frontend-ops
 /.prettierignore @grafana/frontend-ops
 /.yarn @grafana/frontend-ops
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 201697fce4d..4d8fbde004a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ __debug_bin*
 # This is the new place of the block, but I leave the previous here for a while
 /devenv/docker/blocks/auth/saml-enterprise
 /devenv/docker/blocks/auth/signer
+/devenv/docker/blocks/spanner_tests
 
 /tmp
 tools/phantomjs/phantomjs
@@ -103,14 +104,18 @@ profile.cov
 /pkg/cmd/grafana-cli/grafana-cli
 /pkg/cmd/grafana-server/grafana-server
 /pkg/cmd/grafana-server/debug
-/pkg/extensions/*
-/pkg/build/cmd/artifactspage.go
-/pkg/build/cmd/artifactspage.tmpl.html
-/pkg/build/cmd/exportversion.go
-/pkg/server/wireexts_enterprise.go
+
+# Extensions
 /pkg/cmd/grafana-cli/runner/wireexts_enterprise.go
+/pkg/server/wireexts_enterprise.go
+/pkg/build/cmd/enterprise.go
+/pkg/extensions/*
+!/pkg/extensions/.keep
 !/pkg/extensions/main.go
 /public/app/extensions
+!/public/app/extensions/.keep
+
+
 debug.test
 /examples/*/dist
 /packaging/**/*.rpm
@@ -170,6 +175,7 @@ compilation-stats.json
 /e2e/benchmarks/**/results
 /e2e/build_results.zip
 /e2e/extensions
+!/e2e/extensions/.keep
 /e2e/extensions-suite
 /test-results/
 /playwright-report/
diff --git a/.ignore b/.ignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..01e1bb8d6e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.ignore
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# This is a trick to ignore files only by git but not by other tools
+!/public/app/extensions
+!/pkg/extensions/*
+!/pkg/cmd/grafana-cli/runner/wireexts_enterprise.go
+!/pkg/server/wireexts_enterprise.go
+!/pkg/build/cmd/enterprise.go
+!/pkg/extensions/*
+
+# Enterprise emails
+!/emails/templates/enterprise_*
+!/public/emails/enterprise_*
+
+# Enterprise reporting fonts
+!/public/fonts/dejavu
+
+# Enterprise devenv
+!/devenv/docker/blocks/grafana-enterprise
+!/devenv/docker/blocks/saml-enterprise
+# This is the new place of the block, but I leave the previous here for a while
+!/devenv/docker/blocks/auth/saml-enterprise
+!/devenv/docker/blocks/auth/signer
+!/devenv/docker/blocks/spanner_tests
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/e2e/extensions/.keep b/e2e/extensions/.keep
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/pkg/build/cmd/flags.go b/pkg/build/cmd/flags.go
index 7ab2eb6f993..f0fb0ee1168 100644
--- a/pkg/build/cmd/flags.go
+++ b/pkg/build/cmd/flags.go
@@ -21,10 +21,6 @@ var (
 		Usage: "Specify number of tries before failing",
 		Value: 1,
 	}
-	dryRunFlag = cli.BoolFlag{
-		Name:  "dry-run",
-		Usage: "Only simulate actions",
-	}
 	tagFlag = cli.StringFlag{
 		Name:  "tag",
 		Usage: "Grafana version tag",
diff --git a/pkg/build/cmd/main.go b/pkg/build/cmd/main.go
index d207abe020b..37957b15c0e 100644
--- a/pkg/build/cmd/main.go
+++ b/pkg/build/cmd/main.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/build"
+	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/build/cmd/util"
 	"github.com/urfave/cli/v2"
 )
 
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ func main() {
 			Name:      "publish-metrics",
 			Usage:     "Publish a set of metrics from stdin",
 			ArgsUsage: "<api-key>",
-			Action:    MaxArgCountWrapper(1, PublishMetrics),
+			Action:    util.MaxArgCountWrapper(1, PublishMetrics),
 		},
 		{
 			Name:   "verify-drone",
@@ -178,7 +179,7 @@ func main() {
 							Name:      "fetch",
 							Usage:     "Fetch Grafana Docker images",
 							ArgsUsage: "[version]",
-							Action:    MaxArgCountWrapper(1, FetchImages),
+							Action:    util.MaxArgCountWrapper(1, FetchImages),
 							Flags: []cli.Flag{
 								&editionFlag,
 							},
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ func main() {
 					Flags: []cli.Flag{
 						&editionFlag,
 						&buildIDFlag,
-						&dryRunFlag,
+						&util.DryRunFlag,
 						&cli.StringFlag{
 							Name:  "src-bucket",
 							Value: "grafana-downloads",
@@ -242,7 +243,7 @@ func main() {
 					Usage:  "Publish packages to GitHub releases",
 					Action: PublishGithub,
 					Flags: []cli.Flag{
-						&dryRunFlag,
+						&util.DryRunFlag,
 						&cli.StringFlag{
 							Name:  "path",
 							Usage: "Path to the asset to be published",
@@ -267,7 +268,7 @@ func main() {
 					Usage:  "Publish image to AWS Marketplace releases",
 					Action: PublishAwsMarketplace,
 					Flags: []cli.Flag{
-						&dryRunFlag,
+						&util.DryRunFlag,
 						&cli.StringFlag{
 							Name:  "version",
 							Usage: "Release version (default from metadata)",
diff --git a/pkg/build/cmd/publishaws_test.go b/pkg/build/cmd/publishaws_test.go
index 626f5f4c5f4..af3782b1571 100644
--- a/pkg/build/cmd/publishaws_test.go
+++ b/pkg/build/cmd/publishaws_test.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ecr"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/marketplacecatalog"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/api/types/image"
+	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/build/cmd/util"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/urfave/cli/v2"
 )
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ func setupPublishAwsMarketplaceTests(t *testing.T) *cli.App {
 	testApp := cli.NewApp()
 	testApp.Action = PublishAwsMarketplace
 	testApp.Flags = []cli.Flag{
-		&dryRunFlag,
+		&util.DryRunFlag,
 		&cli.StringFlag{
 			Name:  "version",
 			Usage: "Release version (default from metadata)",
@@ -171,9 +172,11 @@ type mockAwsMarketplaceDocker struct {
 func (m *mockAwsMarketplaceDocker) ImagePull(ctx context.Context, refStr string, options image.PullOptions) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
 	return io.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader([]byte(""))), m.ImagePullError
 }
+
 func (m *mockAwsMarketplaceDocker) ImageTag(ctx context.Context, source string, target string) error {
 	return m.ImageTagError
 }
+
 func (m *mockAwsMarketplaceDocker) ImagePush(ctx context.Context, image string, options image.PushOptions) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
 	return io.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader([]byte(""))), m.ImagePushError
 }
@@ -202,6 +205,7 @@ func (m *mockAwsMarketplaceCatalog) DescribeEntityWithContext(ctx context.Contex
 		EntityIdentifier: aws.String("productid"),
 	}, m.DescribeEntityWithContextError
 }
+
 func (m *mockAwsMarketplaceCatalog) StartChangeSetWithContext(ctx context.Context, input *marketplacecatalog.StartChangeSetInput, opts ...request.Option) (*marketplacecatalog.StartChangeSetOutput, error) {
 	return &marketplacecatalog.StartChangeSetOutput{}, m.StartChangeSetWithContextError
 }
diff --git a/pkg/build/cmd/publishgithub_test.go b/pkg/build/cmd/publishgithub_test.go
index 698b8048a05..79464391810 100644
--- a/pkg/build/cmd/publishgithub_test.go
+++ b/pkg/build/cmd/publishgithub_test.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/google/go-github/github"
+	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/build/cmd/util"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/urfave/cli/v2"
 )
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ func setupPublishGithubTests(t *testing.T) (*cli.App, string) {
 	testApp := cli.NewApp()
 	testApp.Action = PublishGithub
 	testApp.Flags = []cli.Flag{
-		&dryRunFlag,
+		&util.DryRunFlag,
 		&cli.StringFlag{
 			Name:     "path",
 			Required: true,
diff --git a/pkg/build/cmd/argcount_wrapper.go b/pkg/build/cmd/util/argcount_wrapper.go
similarity index 96%
rename from pkg/build/cmd/argcount_wrapper.go
rename to pkg/build/cmd/util/argcount_wrapper.go
index 394283e163d..cce3605db62 100644
--- a/pkg/build/cmd/argcount_wrapper.go
+++ b/pkg/build/cmd/util/argcount_wrapper.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package main
+package util
 
 import "github.com/urfave/cli/v2"
 
diff --git a/pkg/build/cmd/util/flags.go b/pkg/build/cmd/util/flags.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..89cb772bdda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/build/cmd/util/flags.go
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package util
+
+import "github.com/urfave/cli/v2"
+
+var DryRunFlag = cli.BoolFlag{
+	Name:  "dry-run",
+	Usage: "Only simulate actions",
+}
diff --git a/pkg/extensions/.keep b/pkg/extensions/.keep
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/public/app/extensions/.keep b/public/app/extensions/.keep
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d