refactor(self-managed): HA values rework — single mode enum, global.affinity, fix review gaps

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Stacked on #1683 (step 4 of the #996 → #1679 → #1683 chain). This is a follow-up, not a replacement — see "Scope" below for why it's a separate PR.

Summary

Implements the HA Values Rework design review (doc: "NVCF Self-Hosted Control-Plane HA Values Rework", repo baseline f38d10b) on top of the #996/#1679/#1683 stack, and fixes several still-open review comments from those PRs along the way.

Six independent, individually-revertable/cherry-pickable commits — intended so pieces can be re-applied directly onto #996/#1679/#1683 if it's easier to land them there instead of merging this on top:

1. refactor: rename highAvailability.mode enum to none|preferred|enforced
2. fix: bump NATS JetStream RF default from 2 to 3
3. fix: default OpenBao disruption budget under HA; fix admin-proxy selector
4. refactor: unify HA affinity/topology-spread, remove hotPath/tier2
5. refactor: remove unused highAvailability.* subtrees from base.yaml
6. docs: move HA guide to docs/user/, fix guarantee overclaims

What changed

• Single highAvailability.mode enum, none|preferred|enforced (dropped the ha- prefix).
• Removed highAvailability.stateless, .hotPath, .tier2 (and .tier2.topologySpread.enabled/.strict), .nats.replicas, .openbao.*, .cassandra.* — no per-component HA subtree. Sizing/placement now derive uniformly from mode for every in-scope release.
• New global.affinity / global.topologySpreadConstraints: class (controlplane/cassandra/vault, reusing the existing global.nodeSelectors taxonomy) → all → mode-derived convention. Explicit {}/[] suppresses the generated policy (presence-aware, not truthy-aware).
• Quorum zone spread is no longer opt-in — it now follows the same soft/hard-by-mode convention as everything else, matching the design review's explicit ask. (Prerequisites — WaitForFirstConsumer StorageClass, ≥3-AZ capacity — are now documented as "what it takes for the guarantee to hold" rather than a separate toggle.)

Review gaps closed from #1679/#1683

• 🟠 NATS JetStream RF=2 → 3 (was a no-op for HA; RF=2 Raft groups lose quorum on a single replica loss) — both the code default and the doc's false "survives replica loss" claim.
• 🟠 OpenBao quorum had no disruption-budget protection at all under HA unless explicitly configured — now defaults to {enabled: true, maxUnavailable: 1}.
• admin-issuer-proxy anti-affinity/topology-spread selector matched the chart's fullnameOverride (admin-token-issuer-proxy) instead of the actual Helm release name (admin-issuer-proxy, which is what app.kubernetes.io/instance is set from) — was a silent no-op.
• natsAuthCalloutService never had a PodDisruptionBudget wired at all — now gets the same minAvailable: 1 as every other replica-safe Deployment.
• llmApiGateway.replicaCount ignored highAvailability.mode entirely (always read addons.llm.gateway.replicaCount, default 3) — now follows the same mode-derived convention.
• Docs moved from the frozen docs/v0.6.1/ tree to docs/user/, and reworded to stop overclaiming AZ-loss guarantees without their prerequisites.

⚠️ Known gap — NOT fixed in this PR

This PR does not address the Tier-2 anti-affinity label-scoping issue (🟠 Major on #1679): the generated hostname anti-affinity for Cassandra/NATS/OpenBao matches app.kubernetes.io/instance: <release>, which also matches non-quorum sidecar pods in the same release (e.g. the OpenBao injector, NATS box). The correct scoped selector (e.g. app.kubernetes.io/name/component, per CodeRabbit's suggestion on #1679) needs confirming against the actual NATS/OpenBao chart source, which isn't vendored in this repo. A wrong guess here would silently break anti-affinity entirely, which is worse than the current over-broad match — so it's left open rather than guessed at.

Workaround: the new global.affinity.vault / global.affinity.controlplane override in this PR lets whoever has chart access supply the correctly-scoped selector directly, without a further code change to the generated convention.

Testing

• make test in deploy/stacks/self-managed — full suite green, including ha-value-wiring.sh with new coverage for global.affinity/global.topologySpreadConstraints class/all/suppression fallback, the corrected default-on zone spread, and the two PDB/selector fixes above.
• The global.affinity override helper emits operator overrides as full affinity: content rather than re-wrapping them — an earlier draft double-nested podAntiAffinity: when the override itself set that key; covered by the new fallback tests above.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Standardized high-availability modes as none, preferred, and enforced.
  • Added automatic replica sizing, disruption protection, affinity, and topology spreading across supported services.
  • Added configurable global and class-specific scheduling overrides.
  • Increased the default JetStream replication factor from 2 to 3.

• Documentation

  • Updated high-availability guidance, validation steps, and recovery requirements.
  • Added the high-availability guide to development documentation navigation.
  • Removed the high-availability link from the v0.6.1 self-managed deployment guide.

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The self-managed HA configuration now uses none, preferred, and enforced modes. Shared helpers derive replicas, disruption budgets, affinity, and topology spread. JetStream defaults to RF=3. Tests and documentation reflect the new behavior.

Changes

Self-managed high availability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
HA configuration and shared helpers deploy/stacks/self-managed/environments/base.yaml, deploy/stacks/self-managed/global.yaml.gotmpl	HA modes and configuration are unified. Shared helpers derive replica counts, disruption budgets, affinity, topology spread, and validation behavior.
Quorum service wiring deploy/stacks/self-managed/global.yaml.gotmpl	Cassandra, OpenBao, and NATS use fixed quorum sizing and shared scheduling and disruption policies.
Replica-safe workload wiring deploy/stacks/self-managed/global.yaml.gotmpl	Replica-safe services use shared scaling, disruption, affinity, and topology policies. Invocation and gRPC proxy remain single-replica under HA.
HA validation and documentation deploy/stacks/self-managed/tests/ha-value-wiring.sh, docs/user/high-availability.md, docs/v0.6.1/index.md, fern/versions/dev.yml	Tests and documentation use the renamed modes, RF=3, generated placement, override resolution, and capacity requirements. Documentation navigation now exposes the HA guide in development documentation.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant HelmValues
  participant GlobalTemplate
  participant Kubernetes
  Operator->>HelmValues: Set highAvailability.mode
  HelmValues->>GlobalTemplate: Supply HA configuration
  GlobalTemplate->>GlobalTemplate: Derive replicas and placement policies
  GlobalTemplate->>Kubernetes: Render workload manifests

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Global affinity and topology overrides are silently ignored for quorum services when HA is disabled. The impact is bounded, but the guards should be removed before merge or the limitation explicitly accepted.

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🟡 Minor · Apply global scheduling overrides when mode: none. · global.yaml.gotmpl:275-284

deploy/stacks/self-managed/global.yaml.gotmpl:275-284
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply global scheduling overrides when mode: none.

The helpers return empty content only for the generated mode-derived policy. They still emit explicit global.affinity.<class>, global.affinity.all, and matching topology overrides. The $haEnabled guards suppress these overrides for Cassandra, OpenBao, and NATS when mode: none. The environment guidance defines these global values as shared scheduling tuning across all workload classes.

Remove the guard from the Cassandra block and apply the same change to the OpenBao and NATS blocks.

♻️ Proposed change for the Cassandra block

-  {{- if $haEnabled }}
   {{- with include "nvcf.ha.podAntiAffinity" (dict "Values" .Values "instance" "cassandra" "class" "cassandra") }}
   affinity:
     {{- . | nindent 4 }}
   {{- end }}
   {{- with include "nvcf.ha.topologySpreadItems" (dict "Values" .Values "instance" "cassandra" "class" "cassandra") }}
   topologySpreadConstraints:
     {{- . | nindent 4 }}
   {{- end }}
-  {{- end }}

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In `@deploy/stacks/self-managed/global.yaml.gotmpl` around lines 275 - 284, Remove
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- Around line 275-284: Remove the $haEnabled guard around the Cassandra affinity
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We will need the corresponding chart changes in the independent services for these new field changes to reflect.