Add Nextcloud cloud storage role with split Redis caching strategy

## New Features

- **Nextcloud Role**: Complete cloud storage deployment using Podman Quadlet
  - FPM variant with Caddy reverse proxy and FastCGI
  - PostgreSQL database via Unix socket
  - Valkey/Redis for app-level caching and file locking
  - Automatic HTTPS with Let's Encrypt via Caddy
  - Dual-root pattern: Caddy serves static assets, FPM handles PHP

- **Split Caching Strategy**: Redis caching WITHOUT Redis sessions
  - Custom redis.config.php template for app-level caching only
  - File-based PHP sessions for stability (avoids session lock issues)
  - Prevents cascading failures from session lock contention
  - Documented in role README with detailed rationale

## Infrastructure Updates

- **Socket Permissions**: Update PostgreSQL and Valkey to mode 777
  - Required for containers that switch users (root → www-data)
  - Nextcloud container loses supplementary groups on user switch
  - Security maintained via password authentication (scram-sha-256, requirepass)
  - Documented socket permission architecture in docs/

- **PostgreSQL**: Export client group GID as fact for dependent roles
- **Valkey**: Export client group GID as fact, update socket fix service

## Documentation

- New: docs/socket-permissions-architecture.md
  - Explains 777 vs 770 socket permission trade-offs
  - Documents why group-based access doesn't work for user-switching containers
  - Provides TCP alternative for stricter security requirements

- Updated: All role READMEs with socket permission notes
- New: Nextcloud README with comprehensive deployment, troubleshooting, and Redis architecture documentation

## Configuration

- host_vars: Add Nextcloud vault variables and configuration
- site.yml: Include Nextcloud role in main playbook

## Technical Details

**Why disable Redis sessions?**

The official Nextcloud container enables Redis session handling via REDIS_HOST env var,
which causes severe performance issues:

1. Session lock contention under high concurrency (browser parallel asset requests)
2. Infinite lock retries (default lock_retries=-1) blocking FPM workers
3. Timeout orphaning: reverse proxy kills connection, worker keeps lock
4. Worker pool exhaustion: all 5 default workers blocked on same session lock
5. Cascading failure: new requests queue, more timeouts, more orphaned locks

Solution: Use file-based sessions (reliable, fast for single-server) while keeping
Redis for distributed cache and transactional file locking via custom config file.

This provides optimal performance without the complexity of Redis session debugging.

Tested: Fresh deployment on arch-vps (69.62.119.31)
Domain: https://cloud.jnss.me/
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# Nextcloud Cloud Storage Service
# Caddy reverse proxy to FPM container with FastCGI transport
# Based on official Caddy php_fastcgi Docker example and Nextcloud NGINX config
{{ nextcloud_domain }} {
# Caddy root - host path where static files exist for serving
# This allows Caddy to find files to serve directly (CSS, JS, images)
root * {{ nextcloud_html_dir }}
# .well-known redirects for CalDAV/CardDAV (must be before php_fastcgi)
redir /.well-known/carddav /remote.php/dav 301
redir /.well-known/caldav /remote.php/dav 301
# Handle .well-known requests that aren't explicitly redirected above
# Let Nextcloud's API handle all other /.well-known/* URIs
redir /.well-known/* /index.php{uri} 301
# Block access to sensitive directories (adapted from NGINX config)
# Match both the directory itself and anything under it
@forbidden {
path /build /build/*
path /tests /tests/*
path /config /config/*
path /lib /lib/*
path /3rdparty /3rdparty/*
path /templates /templates/*
path /data /data/*
path /.* /autotest* /occ* /issue* /indie* /db_* /console*
}
respond @forbidden 404
# PHP-FPM with container root for SCRIPT_FILENAME
# The nested 'root' directive tells FPM where files are in the container
# Per official Caddy docs: https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/php_fastcgi
php_fastcgi 127.0.0.1:{{ nextcloud_fpm_port }} {
root /var/www/html
env front_controller_active true
env modHeadersAvailable true
}
# Serve static files directly (CSS, JS, images, fonts, etc.)
# Disable index serving to let php_fastcgi handle / and /index.php
# This prevents index.html from being served instead of routing to index.php
file_server {
index off
}
# Security headers (adapted from Nextcloud NGINX config)
header {
# HSTS with preload
Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"
# Prevent embedding in frames from other origins
X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN"
# Prevent MIME type sniffing
X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
# XSS protection
X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"
# Referrer policy
Referrer-Policy "no-referrer"
# Disable FLoC tracking
Permissions-Policy "interest-cohort=()"
# Remove server header
-Server
}
# Logging
log {
output file {{ caddy_log_dir }}/nextcloud.log
level INFO
format json
}
}