docs: deploy and roll back through GitOps, since Portainer no longer runs

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CLAUDE.md and RELEASING.md still told an agent to redeploy production through the Portainer API, and to roll back with a Portainer curl. Portainer no longer runs. Production deploys when the image pin in the GitOps repo moves: Renovate automerges the bump a day after each release, and the deploy webhook redeploys the stack on push.

• CLAUDE.md: the LynxPrompt deploy steps describe that path, including how to bump the pin by tag and digest to ship sooner and how to confirm the deploy. The "never run compose by hand" rule stays, with the real reason: it races the webhook. The Portainer table row and preference lines now name the GitOps setup. The TLS cert item keeps its content under a Tailscale name.

• RELEASING.md: the Deploy section drops the "Deploy to Production" workflow, which no longer exists, and the Portainer option. It explains the pin, Renovate's one-day delay, and why "Verify Production Deployment" fails when the deploy waits on that delay. The rollback is "pin the previous tag and digest and push". The four PORTAINER_* rows leave the secrets table.

• docs/ROADMAP.md: the done item "Docker deployment with GitOps (Portainer)" drops the Portainer name.

No workflow reads the PORTAINER_* secrets, so this PR changes docs only and cuts no release.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated deployment guidance to describe push-triggered deployments through the Gitea repository and deploy webhook.
  • Added instructions for managing production image pins, including Renovate’s automatic updates after one day and how to update pins sooner.
  • Clarified deployment health checks, the 20-minute timeout, and rollback steps.
  • Updated infrastructure references to identify Gitea and the webhook as the GitOps tooling.

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Walkthrough

The deployment documentation now describes GitOps repository pushes and webhook redeployment instead of Portainer procedures. It covers image pin updates, deployment checks, rollback, and related infrastructure references.

Changes

GitOps deployment guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Deployment workflow and supporting references CLAUDE.md, RELEASING.md	The instructions describe digest-pinned images, Renovate’s one-day delay, webhook deployment, and health checks. Rollback uses the previous tag and digest in the GitOps repository. Portainer deployment steps and CI/CD secrets are removed. Infrastructure references now name Gitea and the deploy webhook; the known-issues label refers to Tailscale TLS certificates.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8668f

Following the early-deployment instructions can fail to pull the intended release image. Correct the repository name before merging; the documented automatic GitOps deployment path is unaffected by this example.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8668f

The changes clarify the existing deployment process and retain digest pinning and restrictions on manual container changes. No introduced security vulnerability was established. However, the external repository permissions, webhook authorization, and recovery guarantees could not be verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The documented control path reaches the LynxPrompt production stack. The per-server repository description suggests a potentially broader deployment-control scope, but repository permissions, webhook privileges, and the maximum independently affected stacks are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — An attacker able to make an image-pin change accepted by the deployment path could influence the image executed in production. This identifies the relevant trust boundary, not a verified vulnerability: unauthorized write access or webhook bypass was not demonstrated, and broader exposure relative to the former Portainer path remains unresolved.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — Production deployment depends on authorized GitOps writes and trusted webhook execution. Digest pinning makes image selection explicit, but does not establish who may select that digest. External access restrictions and webhook authentication were unavailable for comparison with Portainer authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The instructions establish desired-state ownership and intended rollback identity, but do not establish external transition guarantees. Ordering between manual and Renovate pushes, duplicate handling, atomic checkout/container changes, cleanup after interruption, and terminal recovery consistency remain unverified. These are coverage gaps rather than observed regressions.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description explains the documentation changes and deployment workflow, but it omits most required template sections, including Type of Change, Database Changes, Testing, Security Checklist, and S…	Add all required template sections. Mark Documentation update under Type of Change, state the database-change status, document testing performed or explain why tests do not apply, complete the Security Checklist, and state whether screensho…

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main documentation change: replacing Portainer deployment and rollback instructions with GitOps.

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Explanation

The description explains the documentation changes and deployment workflow, but it omits most required template sections, including Type of Change, Database Changes, Testing, Security Checklist, and Screenshots.

Resolution

Add all required template sections. Mark Documentation update under Type of Change, state the database-change status, document testing performed or explain why tests do not apply, complete the Security Checklist, and state whether screenshots apply. Keep the existing summary and deployment notes.

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Review comments at @RELEASING.md:
- Line 68: Update the “Sooner” release instruction to use the production image
repository, drumsergio/lynxprompt, in both the GitOps image pin and the docker
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