feat: deploy n8n on the cluster

The runtime for the estate's autonomous agents. Postgres as a StatefulSet with
its own claim, n8n behind a cert-manager certificate and the nginx ingress, and
both secrets in Vault behind an AppRole scoped to n8n/* alone.

The certificate is issued into the cluster rather than copied into the repo, so
the private key never reaches git. The CA certificate is committed and mounted
as NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS, so a workflow can reach keycloak and the domain
gateways without anyone disabling verification to make it work.

One replica and strategy: Recreate, both deliberate — n8n needs Redis and queue
mode before a second scheduler is safe, and a ReadWriteOnce volume deadlocks a
rolling update.

N8N_ENCRYPTION_KEY is generated once and kept in Vault. Regenerating it does not
re-encrypt the stored credentials, it orphans them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Nothing here is sensitive. The two values that are — the database password and
# the credential encryption key — arrive through n8n-secrets.
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: n8n-config
namespace: n8n
data:
GENERIC_TIMEZONE: Europe/Paris
TZ: Europe/Paris
NODE_ENV: production
# What n8n believes it is reachable at. It goes into the webhook URLs it
# generates and into the links it puts in its own UI, so it must be the
# ingress host and not the Service — a webhook advertised as `n8n` inside the
# cluster is a webhook nothing outside can call.
N8N_HOST: n8n.sttlab.local
N8N_PORT: "5678"
N8N_PROTOCOL: https
WEBHOOK_URL: https://n8n.sttlab.local/
N8N_EDITOR_BASE_URL: https://n8n.sttlab.local/
# TLS terminates at the ingress, so n8n itself serves plain HTTP and must be
# told it is behind a proxy — otherwise it reads the hop's address instead of
# the caller's.
N8N_PROXY_HOPS: "1"
# The default is to keep every execution for ever, which turns the database
# into a log. Two weeks is long enough to debug a failed run.
EXECUTIONS_DATA_PRUNE: "true"
EXECUTIONS_DATA_MAX_AGE: "336"
N8N_DIAGNOSTICS_ENABLED: "false"
N8N_VERSION_NOTIFICATIONS_ENABLED: "false"
N8N_RUNNERS_ENABLED: "true"