NVIDIA-918: Add NVIDIA DPF Operator documentation

[gaurav-nelson]

Based on #117002 by @Shivank-rh

Cherrypick:

• enterprise-4.22+

Summary

• Converts the NVIDIA DPF (DOCA Platform Framework) v26.4 installation manual into modular AsciiDoc
• DPF enables hardware-accelerated OVN-Kubernetes networking by offloading data plane operations to NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs on OpenShift 4.22
• 7 assemblies in networking/networking_operators/dpf_operator/, 59 modules in modules/, 2 images, topic map entry

Structure

Assembly	Content
about-dpf-operator	Architecture overview, component placement, requirements
dpf-environment-setup	Management cluster setup, prerequisite operators
dpf-operator-installation	DPF Operator install, DPU resources, DPU services
dpf-hosted-cluster-provisioning	DPU hosted cluster via dpf-hcp-provisioner
dpf-worker-nodes-provisioning	OVN-K CNI adjustments, adding workers, DPU provisioning
dpf-validation-telemetry	Traffic validation, DTS observability
dpf-troubleshooting	DPU provisioning issues, unsupported OVN-K features

Items for reviewer

• TOC bits need to be added by the reviewer
• TODO comments flag areas needing engineering verification: BFB registry auth, TP vs GA in Ch 12
• Cross-references to existing OCP docs use xref: placeholders — need anchor ID verification
• Source uses "management cluster" and "host cluster" interchangeably — standardized on "management cluster"

Test plan

• Verify all include:: paths resolve
• Verify topic map renders correctly
• Review Vale compliance
• Cross-check code examples against DPF v26.4 source

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[openshift-ci-robot]

@gaurav-nelson: This pull request references NVIDIA-918 which is a valid jira issue.

Warning: The referenced jira issue has an invalid target version for the target branch this PR targets: expected the epic to target the "5.0.0" version, but no target version was set.

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Based on #117002 by @Shivank-rh

Summary

• Converts the NVIDIA DPF (DOCA Platform Framework) v26.4 installation manual into modular AsciiDoc
• DPF enables hardware-accelerated OVN-Kubernetes networking by offloading data plane operations to NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs on OpenShift 4.22
• 7 assemblies in networking/networking_operators/dpf_operator/, 59 modules in modules/, 2 images, topic map entry

Structure

Assembly	Content
about-dpf-operator	Architecture overview, component placement, requirements
dpf-environment-setup	Management cluster setup, prerequisite operators
dpf-operator-installation	DPF Operator install, DPU resources, DPU services
dpf-hosted-cluster-provisioning	DPU hosted cluster via dpf-hcp-provisioner
dpf-worker-nodes-provisioning	OVN-K CNI adjustments, adding workers, DPU provisioning
dpf-validation-telemetry	Traffic validation, DTS observability
dpf-troubleshooting	DPU provisioning issues, unsupported OVN-K features

Items for reviewer

• TOC bits need to be added by the reviewer
• TODO comments flag areas needing engineering verification: BFB registry auth, TP vs GA in Ch 12
• Cross-references to existing OCP docs use xref: placeholders — need anchor ID verification
• Source uses "management cluster" and "host cluster" interchangeably — standardized on "management cluster"

Test plan

• Verify all include:: paths resolve
• Verify topic map renders correctly
• Review Vale compliance
• Cross-check code examples against DPF v26.4 source

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🤖 Mon Aug 03 02:44:16 - Prow CI generated the docs preview:

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https://117142--ocpdocs-pr.netlify.app/openshift-enterprise/latest/networking/networking_operators/dpf_operator/dpf-worker-nodes-provisioning.html

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