docs: add trusted proxy migration guidance

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Document how older self-hosted deployments should configure trusted reverse proxies to record client IPs correctly.

• Explain affected Quickstart and marketplace deployments.
• Add trustedPeers configuration guidance and restart instructions.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added migration notes to the self-hosted upgrade guide for older Quickstart deployments.
  • Documented how to configure trusted reverse-proxy addresses and forwarded client-IP headers.
  • Included guidance for bundled and external reverse proxies, plus the required server container restart.
  • Clarified client IP handling differences in older and newer server versions.

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Walkthrough

The self-hosted upgrade guide adds migration notes for older Quickstart deployments. The notes describe reverseProxy.trustedPeers, proxy configuration examples, version-specific client-IP behavior, and the required netbird-server restart.

Changes

Self-hosted upgrade documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reverse proxy migration instructions src/pages/selfhosted/maintenance/upgrade.mdx	Adds migration notes for older deployments, including trustedPeers and trustedHTTPProxies settings, bundled Traefik and external proxy guidance, client-IP behavior by server version, and a restart command.

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Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 94388

The upgrade guide exposes a deployment-specific internal address in a public example; replacing it with a placeholder is a small documentation fix before merge.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the documentation change: adding migration guidance for trusted reverse proxy configuration.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Trusted peers stand clear and bright
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In `@src/pages/selfhosted/maintenance/upgrade.mdx`:
- Around line 89-91: Replace both bundled Traefik IP literals in the upgrade
documentation with a bundled-Traefik address placeholder, and instruct readers
to substitute their configured static container address or use the configured
proxy network when the address is not static.

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