release: reconcile Pulse images missing from stack inventories

[sbaum1994]

Summary

Reconcile the nine images present in the latest released-image comparison but absent from the released self-managed stack inventory. For each image, determine whether it is part of the self-managed control plane, observability plane, or compute plane, including optional and runtime-delivered components.

If an image is shipped by a stack, make it appear in that stack's release inventory. If it is intentionally outside the stacks, record the exclusion and owning distribution path.

Images to classify

• nvcf-unbound:0.10.2
• byoo-otel-collector:0.160.0-nv-0.2.5
• nvcf-otel-collector:0.160.0-nv-0.2.5
• llm-api-gateway-rate-limit-sync-worker:0.14.2
• nvcf-event-ledger:0.15.2
• nvcf-worker-task-oss:1.1.2
• pylon:0.18.0
• cluster-validator:3.8.0
• tools:3.8.0

Known cases that need explicit treatment:

• Pylon is a conditional runtime image configured through the self-managed stack, but it is absent from the attached resolved inventory.
• The compute-plane OTel collector and cluster validator are disabled by default. Decide whether a release inventory represents only a default render or every image that the released stack can deploy.
• Event Ledger currently has chart and route sources but is not included as a stack release.

Release-asset gap

The self-managed release has one combined inventory asset, but the latest observability and compute-plane GitHub releases have no attached inventory assets. Add plane-scoped resolved inventory assets to those release workflows.

Acceptance criteria

• Each of the nine images has an explicit included or not part of this stack decision with its owning plane and release surface.
• Every image that a released stack can deploy is represented, including conditional, init, sidecar, migration, and runtime-configured images.
• Intentional exclusions document where the image is distributed and why it is outside the three stacks.
• Self-managed, observability, and compute-plane releases each attach a machine-readable image/chart inventory.
• Inventory generation tests cover conditional and source-only images such as Pylon.

Resources

• Parent: release: align remaining self-managed image and chart pins #1781
• Chart-production child: release: update chart image pins to current remediated releases #1832
• Stack-consumption child: release: consume remediated chart releases in self-managed stacks #1833
• Release configuration: tools/ci/github-release-subprojects.json
• Self-managed inventory configuration: deploy/stacks/self-managed/release-inventory.yaml

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