chore(docs): update openshell release note with "early access"

[maxdubrinsky]

Summary

Make clear the early-access nature of the openshell sandbox integration we have.

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• Documentation only
• Contributor tooling or automation
• CI, build, or test infrastructure

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated release notes to describe early-access agent deployment through an Openshell Gateway.
  • Clarified that deployments support customizable default-deny network policies.
  • Replaced broader sandbox backend terminology with more specific deployment details.
  • Added clearer guidance about the deployment approach and its network-policy configuration.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release note now describes early-access Openshell Gateway deployment with customizable default-deny network policies. Docker backend tests now cover config file archive delivery, startup ordering, file modes, no-file behavior, and delivery failures.

Changes

Docker config file coverage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define config file deployment fixtures plugins/nemo-deployments/tests/unit/backends/docker/docker_helpers.py, plugins/nemo-deployments/tests/unit/backends/docker/test_backend_mocked.py	The tests add a ConfigFile fixture with configurable path, content, and restart policy.
Validate archive delivery and startup handling plugins/nemo-deployments/tests/unit/backends/docker/test_backend_mocked.py	The tests verify archive contents, parent directories, file modes, startup ordering, no-file behavior, and cleanup after delivery failures.

Release note update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update deployment capability description docs/about/release-notes/current-release.mdx	The deployment note now describes early-access Openshell Gateway deployment and customizable default-deny network policies.

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA-NeMo/nemo-platform#1082: Related Docker backend initialization and dependency-handling changes.
• NVIDIA-NeMo/nemo-platform#1217: Related Docker config_files fixtures and archive delivery tests.

Suggested labels: docs

Suggested reviewers: briannewsom, mckornfield, stefan-kickoff

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/about/release-notes/current-release.mdx`:
- Around line 121-122: Update the release-note text to capitalize the product
name as “OpenShell” instead of “Openshell,” without changing the surrounding
description.

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Integration Tests	18566/38643	48.0%	20.8%