docs: add user guide for restricting Authorino's outbound HTTP routes

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What

Adds a new user guide, Restricting the outbound HTTP routes Authorino can reach, and links it from the user-guides index.

What the guide covers

Two ValidatingAdmissionPolicy (VAP) resources that turn every outbound destination into an explicit, RBAC-gated
allowlist:

Changes

• docs/user-guides/restrict-outbound-http-routes.md (new)
• docs/user-guides.md (index entry)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a comprehensive guide for restricting outbound HTTP routes from Authorino authentication configurations.
  • Documented RBAC controls for statically identified destinations, inline Rego http.send, and externally sourced OPA policies.
  • Added Kubernetes prerequisites, setup instructions, policy and binding examples, verification scenarios, and re-validation behaviour for configuration changes.
  • Updated the user-guide index to highlight RBAC requirements for outbound HTTP access.

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Walkthrough

The documentation expands the outbound HTTP route guide with a third ValidatingAdmissionPolicy for externally sourced OPA policies. It adds Kubernetes prerequisites, RBAC resources, policy YAML, warnings, and verification examples.

Changes

Outbound HTTP controls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Policy scope and prerequisites docs/user-guides.md, docs/user-guides/restrict-outbound-http-routes.md	The guide index and introduction cover RBAC gating for external OPA policies. The guide states the Kubernetes v1.30+ prerequisite.
RBAC and admission policy configuration docs/user-guides/restrict-outbound-http-routes.md	The guide adds the external OPA ClusterRole, RoleBinding template, ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, binding, and CREATE/UPDATE validation warning.
Verification and namespace-scoped access docs/user-guides/restrict-outbound-http-routes.md	The guide adds denied, allowed, no-outbound, update re-check, and namespace-scoped RoleBinding examples.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b1d42

The new outbound-route restriction guide may leave OIDC discovery traffic uncontrolled and may provide verification commands that do not test the intended policy behavior. Resolve these documentation gaps before merge so operators can safely configure and validate the restrictions.

Poem

A rabbit checks the policy gate,
External OPA waits for RBAC,
Hosts follow their allowlists,
Updates face the same checks,
Clear examples guide each hop.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/user-guides/restrict-outbound-http-routes.md`:
- Line 335: Update both denial-output Markdown code fences in the documented
section to specify text as the language on their opening fences, resolving the
MD040 violations while leaving the fenced content unchanged.
- Around line 237-243: The usesHttpSend validation must also inspect
externalPolicy Rego, not only inline authorization[k].opa.rego. Extend the
expression to detect http.send in the downloaded external policy and require
authconfig-httpsend for it, then add a denial case covering an external policy
that invokes http.send.
- Line 293: Update the kubectl --as guidance in the policy-block example to
state that impersonation requires the caller to have the relevant impersonate
permission; otherwise, instruct readers to use the actual user or ServiceAccount
credentials.
- Around line 144-147: Update the authorization policy around issuerUrls to
validate OIDC discovery-derived jwks_uri and userinfo_endpoint destinations, not
only configured issuerUrl and userInfoUrl hosts. Constrain the resolved hosts
before allowing the AuthConfig, and ensure UserInfo requests cannot forward a
bearer token to an unapproved discovered endpoint.
- Around line 97-99: Update the guide before Step 1 to state that these
manifests require Kubernetes v1.30 or newer. In the ValidatingAdmissionPolicy
definitions, constrain discovered issuer metadata endpoints such as jwks_uri and
userinfo_endpoint to approved hosts, and ensure external opa.externalPolicy Rego
is subject to the same http.send restriction as inline opa.rego rather than
relying only on usesHttpSend.

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