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Ben Duncan 7c56855526 fix(oci): both credential routes in the guide, and a nightly topology that proves the principal one (#1173)
* docs(oci): offer both credential routes, and default the guide to the release

Step 2 was one route only, the scoped API key, with the instance principal
mentioned in a TIP at the end of it. It is now "2. OCI Credentials for
Spinifex" with the two routes as 2.1 and 2.2, a table to choose between them,
and the instance principal first because it leaves no key on any node.

The guide also assumed the dev branch throughout. `git switch dev` and
`--channel dev` are now an optional note for installing a pre-release, and the
documented path is the published release.

* test(oci): add a vm-single-principal topology, and cover the credential branch

Instance-principal authentication was broken for a release while the OCI
nightly stayed green, because the run's two axes never crossed: every topology
that built the address allocator authenticated with an API key, and every run
that authenticated as the instance was dispatched with no external pool, so the
allocator was never constructed and the credential never used.

vm-single-principal closes that. It is vm-single with the credential fixed by
the topology rather than by a separate switch, so the name alone decides it, and
pairing it with --no-external-pool is refused rather than run: without the
allocator there is nothing for it to exercise. It joins the nightly's default
list, and naming it alone is the way to test this one thing in a quarter of the
full run.

A unit test covers the same branch without a tenancy. newClient now reaches its
two constructors through package variables a test can swap, which is the only
way to observe the choice off an OCI instance - both real constructors need
either an instance identity or a key file on disk.

* fix(oci): let the tfvars choose the credential, and stop the guide hardcoding paths

The deploy driver passed instance_principal as a -var, which outranks a
tfvars file, so a deployment that set it there had it silently replaced with
off and the nodes went looking for a key. Same defect class as the shape and
node count, and the same fix: the flag is a choice about one run and still
outranks everything, and without it the deployment's own tfvars decides.

The driver now reads instance_principal from terraform.tfvars and
*.auto.tfvars for its pre-apply gates, taking the last assignment as Terraform
does, and checks that guess against a new Terraform output once the apply has
run. They have to agree, because the credential handoff is skipped on the
strength of it and a wrong answer leaves a node with no credential at all.

The guide now carries one export rather than two more steps. SPX_PRINCIPAL is
set in step 2.1, expanded into the tfvars step 4 already writes, and read back
from there in step 5, so an instance-principal deployment runs the same
command as a key-based one.

Getting into the node needed an address copied out of the log. Every topology
now writes its hosts file, not only the multi-node one that hands it to
install-node.sh, and the run prints the ssh and destroy commands when --keep
leaves the infrastructure up. The guide exports TOPOLOGY once, so the paths
read the same for one VM, three, or bare metal.

* fix(oci): print the ssh key path as ~ rather than expanded

The --keep line read ssh -i /home/you/.ssh/oci-spx, which is the invoking
user's home and differs on every machine. Collapsed to ~ when the key is under
$HOME, left alone when it is not.
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