allauth defaulted to ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION=mandatory, and building the confirmation link 500'd with NoReverseMatch on account_confirm_email (paperless-ngx doesn't wire up that view, no SMTP configured either). Authentik already verifies identity via OIDC, so this step is redundant.
Service "paperless" made k8s inject PAPERLESS_PORT=tcp://<ip>:8000 as a legacy Docker-links env var, which paperless-ngx's own entrypoint also reads for gunicorn's bind port - collided, gunicorn crash-looped ("not a valid port number"), and the pod was 1/1 Running with nothing actually listening (nginx saw 502).
Fixes controlplane.tftpl's install.wipe:true (should be false, live CPs already run false) and syncs coredns Corefile back to what's actually deployed (drops an unrolled-out, stale Kong-era rewrite).
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