Wpb 23988 disable smallstep

[mohitrajain]

Change type

• Fix
• Feature
• Documentation
• Security / Upgrade

Basic information

• THIS CHANGE REQUIRES A DEPLOYMENT PACKAGE RELEASE
• THIS CHANGE REQUIRES A WIRE-DOCS RELEASE

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Disables deployment of the smallstep-accomp Helm chart in WIAB-related flows, aligning deployment automation and WIAB staging documentation with the intent to no longer include smallstep in those environments.

Changes:

• Remove smallstep-accomp from bin/helm-operations.sh chart processing and deployment order.
• Update WIAB staging documentation to no longer list or link smallstep-accomp.
• Remove smallstep-accomp from the demo Ansible inventory chart deployment list.
• Add a changelog entry documenting the change.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
offline/wiab-staging.md	Updates WIAB staging docs to exclude smallstep-accomp from deployed charts and further-reading links.
bin/helm-operations.sh	Stops preparing values for and deploying the smallstep-accomp chart.
ansible/inventory/demo/host.yml	Removes smallstep-accomp from charts_to_deploy.
changelog.d/3-deploy-builds/disable-smallstep	Adds release note about disabling smallstep deployments in WIAB environments.

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[Copilot]

The chart list still mentions demo-smtp, but this repo’s values and deployment automation use the smtp chart name (e.g., values/smtp/ and bin/helm-operations.sh deploys smtp). This can mislead WIAB staging users into looking for a non-existent demo-smtp chart in the bundle; consider updating this entry to smtp (or clarifying when demo-smtp applies).

Suggested change

	- External datastores and helpers: `cassandra-external`, `elasticsearch-external`, `minio-external`, `rabbitmq-external`,`postgresql-external`, `databases-ephemeral`, `reaper`, `fake-aws`, `demo-smtp`.
	- External datastores and helpers: `cassandra-external`, `elasticsearch-external`, `minio-external`, `rabbitmq-external`,`postgresql-external`, `databases-ephemeral`, `reaper`, `fake-aws`, `smtp`.