Containerize the API with a persistent volume (#183)

api/README.md

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+# NestQuest API
+
+Standalone FastAPI service owning the NestQuest database (Feature 16).
+Served with ``uvicorn --factory api.app:create_app``; configuration is
+environment-supplied (``api/config.py``) and every variable is required.
+
+## Runtime dependencies
+
+``api/requirements.txt`` is the API deployable's OWN dependency
+manifest (fastapi, uvicorn, pyjwt[crypto], httpx) — deliberately kept
+out of the integration's ``pyproject.toml`` dev group, which exists only
+so the monorepo test venv can run the API tests.
+
+## Container deployment (scaffold)
+
+The image is built from the repository ROOT context (the API loads the
+bundled domain core from ``custom_components/nestquest/core/`` by file
+location, so both trees must be in the build context):
+
+    docker build -t nestquest-api:latest .
+
+Run it with compose — the SQLite file lives on the named volume
+``nestquest-db`` so recreating the container keeps household data:
+
+    cp deploy/.env.example deploy/.env   # then fill in real values
+    docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml up -d --build
+
+``deploy/.env`` is git-ignored and supplies the secrets (panel service
+token, Authentik OIDC settings); ``NESTQUEST_DB_PATH`` is fixed to
+``/var/lib/nestquest/nestquest.db`` by compose. The port is bound to
+localhost only — TLS/reverse proxy, Authentik, network separation,
+backup and restore are later Feature 17 tasks.

api/requirements.txt

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+# Runtime dependency manifest for the NestQuest API deployable.
+#
+# The monorepo's pyproject.toml carries fastapi/uvicorn/pyjwt/httpx in
+# the INTEGRATION's dev group only (so the test venv can exercise the
+# API); they are deliberately NOT integration runtime dependencies.
+# Per that manifest's own comment, the API deployable declares its own
+# runtime dependencies HERE — this file is what the container image
+# installs (see the Dockerfile at the repository root).
+#
+# Compatible ranges mirroring the dev group's floors; the API is a
+# server, so these are the only packages its runtime needs.
+fastapi>=0.115
+uvicorn>=0.30
+pyjwt[crypto]>=2.9
+httpx>=0.28