Run the Sites as rootless Podman Quadlets, and build with podman

The fleet on emily is rootless Podman with Quadlet units under
~/.config/containers/systemd and state in ~/podman-data, all behind one shared
Caddy unit. This brings the menus in line instead of leaving them the last
Docker deployment. The build moves with them: podman reads a Containerfile as
readily as a Dockerfile, so the name now says which toolchain is real.

The app is one .container and one .network file. Two details carry it.
UserNS=keep-id maps the image's own node account onto the user that owns the
units, so data/ and site.env stay owned by tanshu: plain tar backups, no
subuids. provision-site-env.sh writes site.env with the same mapping rather
than --user, which under rootless Podman would have produced a subuid-owned
file the app could not read. And the Site registers its own network with Caddy
by writing a drop-in beside caddy.container, so Caddy never lists its upstreams
and never changes when a Site is added. The unit keeps the Docker-era container
name for the scripts and muscle memory that look it up, while the Caddyfile
proxies to a dotless NetworkAlias, because a container name with dots in it is
a liability in DNS.

The unit keeps podman's Pull=missing, so a restart or a reboot never depends on
the registry being reachable, while the play pulls explicitly at deploy time.
That is also where a missing `podman login` for the private registry now fails,
with the instruction, rather than as a unit that will not start.

copy-site-data.sh moves a Site's data across, and is not a plain rsync:
/var/lib/menu.* on monoco belongs to uid 1000 while the ssh user there is 1001,
so the read needs sudo; monoco cannot ssh to emily, so the workstation relays
the tar; and the extraction runs as tanshu on emily, which is what makes the
files land owned by the user keep-id maps the app onto. It proves the copy by
comparing a SHA-256 of the whole tree against the source and checking every
file's owner.

Not yet done: the copies themselves and the DNS move, which need a human.
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# The app runs TypeScript directly on Node 24, so there is no build step and no
# compiler in the image. Node 24 on Alpine is musl, which sharp ships prebuilt
# binaries for.
FROM node:24-alpine
ENV NODE_ENV=production
WORKDIR /app
# Dependencies first, so editing source does not reinstall them.
COPY --chown=node:node package.json package-lock.json ./
RUN npm ci --omit=dev && npm cache clean --force
COPY --chown=node:node src ./src
COPY --chown=node:node public ./public
COPY --chown=node:node config ./config
COPY --chown=node:node scripts ./scripts
# Config is mounted read-only; everything the app writes lives under MENU_ROOT.
ENV MENU_ROOT=/data
ENV MENU_SITE_CONFIG=/etc/menu-app/site.json
ENV PORT=3000
RUN mkdir -p /data && chown node:node /data
USER node
EXPOSE 3000
HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --start-period=10s \
CMD node -e "fetch('http://127.0.0.1:'+(process.env.PORT||3000)+'/healthz').then(r=>process.exit(r.ok?0:1)).catch(()=>process.exit(1))"
CMD ["node", "src/server.ts"]