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Aleksei Sviridkin 8bffa34b54 feat(platform): add opt-in in-cluster east-west encryption toggle (#2984)
## What this PR does

Adds `networking.encryption.enabled` to the platform chart — a single
operator-facing opt-in, off by default, that turns on in-cluster
(east-west) transport encryption for the active datapath. When enabled,
pod-to-pod traffic across nodes is encrypted at the network layer
regardless of whether the workload implements TLS: defense-in-depth for
the whole mesh without per-application changes.

The default `isp-full` bundle selects the `kubeovn-cilium` datapath (and
`isp-full-generic` selects `kubeovn-cilium-generic`), where KubeOVN owns
the datapath and the overlay is a Geneve tunnel. The toggle therefore
maps to KubeOVN's overlay IPsec (`kube-ovn` `ENABLE_OVN_IPSEC`).
KubeOVN's own controller provisions the IPsec CA and per-node
certificates through the Kubernetes CSR API, so no cert-manager wiring
is needed.

This complements, and does not replace, application-level / end-to-end
TLS: in-cluster encryption never reaches an external client and gives a
tenant no verifiable endpoint certificate. The values comments document
the per-datapath scope — including that Kilo's WireGuard mesh
(`meshGranularity: location`) covers only cross-location traffic and
leaves the intra-location gap this toggle targets, and that the
Cilium-native WireGuard/IPsec path on the `cilium` / `cilium-generic`
variants is not reached because the system bundle does not select those
variants — plus the MTU/throughput overhead.

Scope: only the default KubeOVN datapath is wired through the platform
toggle, which is what the system bundle actually selects. Wiring the
Cilium-native path would require the bundle to expose cilium-only
variant selection; that is out of scope here and called out in the
values comments.

Validation: `helm unittest` on the platform chart passes (66 tests, 7
new) covering on / off / absent / null and verifying the IPsec flag
deep-merges without dropping the existing `kube-ovn` overrides, for both
`isp-full` and `isp-full-generic`.

Closes #2977

Part of #2811

### Screenshots

N/A — no UI changes.

### Release note

```release-note
feat(platform): add opt-in `networking.encryption.enabled` (off by default) that enables in-cluster east-west transport encryption for the default KubeOVN datapath via overlay IPsec; complements, and does not replace, application-level TLS.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Introduced opt-in in-cluster network encryption using KubeOVN IPsec
for east-west traffic protection.
* Added `networking.encryption` configuration toggle (disabled by
default) with full backward compatibility.

* **Tests**
* Added comprehensive test coverage for network encryption
configurations across system variants and edge cases.

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