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feat(webapp): apply default repository policy on ECR repo creation (#3467)
## Summary

Self-hosters that operate the webapp's ECR account separately from the
account running the EKS workers (e.g., a shared platform account that
hosts the registry plus per-team accounts that host clusters) currently
hit a 403 Forbidden the first time **any** project is deployed:

```
Failed to pull image "<acct-A>.dkr.ecr.<region>.amazonaws.com/<namespace>/proj_…:…":
unexpected status from HEAD request to .../v2/.../manifests/sha256:…: 403 Forbidden
```

`ensureEcrRepositoryExists` in
`apps/webapp/app/v3/getDeploymentImageRef.server.ts` calls
`CreateRepository` and `PutLifecyclePolicy`, but never
`SetRepositoryPolicy` — so the new repo inherits the AWS default (only
the registry-owner account can read/pull). Workers in the cluster
account get 403 every single deploy. The only workarounds today are
running a one-off post-create script or pre-creating every repo by hand.

## Proposed change

Add an optional env var:

```
DEPLOY_REGISTRY_ECR_DEFAULT_REPOSITORY_POLICY  (V4 mirror: V4_DEPLOY_REGISTRY_ECR_DEFAULT_REPOSITORY_POLICY)
```

Raw IAM policy JSON. When set, the webapp calls `SetRepositoryPolicy`
immediately after `CreateRepository` so every new repo carries that
policy from creation. Operators control the principal/actions; we don't
bake in any opinions about cross-account boundaries.

Example value (for the typical self-host case — grant pull to the
cluster account):

```json
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [{
    "Sid": "AllowClusterAccountPull",
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Principal": {"AWS": "arn:aws:iam::<cluster-account-id>:root"},
    "Action": [
      "ecr:GetDownloadUrlForLayer",
      "ecr:BatchGetImage",
      "ecr:BatchCheckLayerAvailability"
    ]
  }]
}
```

## Why env var (not a chart-level field)

- Mirrors the shape of the sibling vars (`DEPLOY_REGISTRY_ECR_TAGS`,
`DEPLOY_REGISTRY_ECR_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN`, etc.) which are already
operator-supplied via `webapp.extraEnvVars` in self-host setups.
- Cloud is unaffected — the env var is optional, unset by default;
existing behavior unchanged.
- Existing repos are unaffected — only newly-created repos get the
policy.
- `RepositoryCreationTemplate` from the AWS provider isn't an
alternative here: it only applies to repos created via
pull-through-cache or replication, not to `ecr:CreateRepository` API
calls.

## Implementation

- `apps/webapp/app/env.server.ts` — declare
`DEPLOY_REGISTRY_ECR_DEFAULT_REPOSITORY_POLICY` and the V4 fallback.
- `apps/webapp/app/v3/registryConfig.server.ts` — propagate
`ecrDefaultRepositoryPolicy` to `RegistryConfig`.
- `apps/webapp/app/v3/getDeploymentImageRef.server.ts` —
`createEcrRepository` accepts the policy; if set, calls
`SetRepositoryPolicy` after `PutLifecyclePolicy`.
- `docs/self-hosting/env/webapp.mdx` — documentation row added under
**Deploy & Registry**.

## Verification

Verified end-to-end against a self-hosted Trigger.dev on EKS where the
ECR account is separate from the cluster account:

- **Without the env var** (current `main`): the new project's first run
pod stays in `ImagePullBackOff` with `403 Forbidden`.
- **With the env var set** to a JSON granting
`ecr:BatchGetImage`/`GetDownloadUrlForLayer`/`BatchCheckLayerAvailability`
to the cluster account: a fresh `trigger.dev deploy --env prod` followed
by a `hello-world` run completes in ~5s end-to-end on the first try.

Manually also confirmed that existing repos are untouched (the call only
fires inside `createEcrRepository`, which only runs when
`DescribeRepositories` returned `RepositoryNotFoundException`).

## Out of scope

- Chart values surface for this — operators already pass the existing
ECR vars via `webapp.extraEnvVars`, so this follows the same pattern.
Happy to add a first-class chart field in a follow-up if that's the
preferred direction.
- IAM-policy validation in the webapp — we forward the JSON verbatim to
AWS and surface AWS's error messages on misuse, matching how
`DEPLOY_REGISTRY_ECR_TAGS` is handled today.

This is a draft pending CI / CodeRabbit pass — happy to iterate on
direction (e.g., split into per-action env vars, or extend the chart
values schema) if any of the above choices feels off.

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Co-authored-by: nicktrn <55853254+nicktrn@users.noreply.github.com>
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