tried adding back some tests to see if it triggers the issue

tests/conftest.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 # Add the path of any pytest fixture files you want to make global
 pytest_plugins = [
+    'tests.fixtures.object_stores',
     'tests.fixtures.autouse',
     'tests.fixtures.models',
     'tests.fixtures.data',

tests/fixtures/object_stores.py

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Copyright 2022 MosaicML LLM Foundry authors
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+import os
+import tempfile
+
+from pytest import fixture
+
+
+@fixture
+def gcs_account_credentials():
+    """Mocked GCS Credentials for service level account."""
+    os.environ['GCS_KEY'] = '🗝️'
+    os.environ['GCS_SECRET'] = '🤫'
+    yield
+    del os.environ['GCS_KEY']
+    del os.environ['GCS_SECRET']
+
+
+@fixture
+def uc_account_credentials():
+    """Mocked UC Credentials for service level account."""
+    os.environ['DATABRICKS_HOST'] = '⛵️'
+    os.environ['DATABRICKS_TOKEN'] = '😶‍🌫️'
+    yield
+    del os.environ['DATABRICKS_HOST']
+    del os.environ['DATABRICKS_TOKEN']
+
+
+@fixture
+def oci_temp_file():
+    """Mocked OCI settings file."""
+    file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
+    os.environ['OCI_CONFIG_FILE'] = file.name
+
+    yield
+
+    file.close()
+    del os.environ['OCI_CONFIG_FILE']