chore(docs): move Python tooling out of the Go module

[mikey923]

What does this PR do?

Moves the Python tooling that is only used to build the docs site out of the root Go module:

• Pipfile, Pipfile.lock and requirements.txt move to a new docs-site/ directory.
• docs-site/go.mod is a stub module with no code. The Go toolchain excludes any directory containing a go.mod from the parent module's zip, so docs-site/ is no longer part of github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go. It is never tagged, because the release scripts only tag modules/* and examples/*.
• runtime.txt is removed. Netlify only reads it from the base directory, so the Python version moves to PYTHON_VERSION in a new root netlify.toml.
• netlify.toml makes the build explicit: pip install -r docs-site/requirements.txt && mkdocs build, publishing site. Netlify only auto-installs requirements.txt from the base directory, so it needs to be told where the file is now.
• Updated the references: the serve-docs Makefile goal, the Dependabot pip directory, and the exclusions in scripts/changed-modules.sh (docs-site/ and netlify.toml don't trigger the Go builds).

Why is it important?

Every file at the module root is shipped to users. It goes into the module cache and, because the root directory is an imported package, go mod vendor copies it into vendor/ too: go mod vendor copies all non-Go files from package directories. Dependency scanners then find Pipfile.lock and flag CVEs in mkdocs' transitive dependencies (urllib3, requests, ...) in projects that only use the Go library. Bumping the lock file only helps until the next CVE.

Vendored files from the root of the module (go mod vendor in a project importing testcontainers-go):

	Python files in vendor/github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go/
v0.44.0	Pipfile, Pipfile.lock, requirements.txt, runtime.txt
this PR	none

The module zip, built with golang.org/x/mod/zip, goes from 380 to 377 files: the four files above are gone, nothing under docs-site/ is included, and netlify.toml is the only new root file.

Related issues

• Relates [CVE]: update urllib3 to resolve CVE-2026-21441 #3540
• Relates pipenv update requests #3243

How to test this PR

• The Netlify deploy preview on this PR exercises the new netlify.toml.
• Locally, pip install -r docs-site/requirements.txt && mkdocs build builds the site from the repo root, and site/ still contains _redirects and _headers.
• ALL_CHANGED_FILES="docs-site/Pipfile.lock netlify.toml" ./scripts/changed-modules.sh prints [].
• cd modulegen && go test ./... passes. modulegen round-trips the pip entry in dependabot.yml, so the directory change survives regeneration.

Follow-ups

• netlify.toml overrides the build settings in the Netlify UI. I assumed the UI runs mkdocs build and publishes site, the mkdocs default, since mkdocs.yml sets no site_dir. Please check that the UI doesn't run anything else.
• According to Netlify's docs, requirements.txt takes precedence over Pipfile, and the serve-docs goal also uses requirements.txt, so Pipfile and Pipfile.lock seem unused. I kept them to keep this PR focused, but deleting them would also stop the Dependabot PRs for the lock file.
• docs-site is just a suggestion for the directory name, so happy to rename it.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated the documentation site’s build and deployment setup, including its Python runtime and dependency installation.
  • Documentation tooling changes are now handled separately from core-module changes.
• Chores
  • Adjusted automated dependency update configuration to target the documentation site.

Walkthrough

The documentation site now has dedicated dependency and Netlify build settings. Local serving uses its requirements file. Core-module change filtering now accounts for docs-site and Netlify configuration.

Changes

Docs Site Setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure docs tooling docs-site/go.mod, netlify.toml, runtime.txt, Makefile, .github/dependabot.yml	Adds a Go module boundary for docs-site, configures Netlify to install its Python requirements and build with MkDocs, removes runtime.txt, and updates local serving and Dependabot to use docs-site dependencies.
Update core-module change filtering scripts/changed-modules.sh	Excludes docs-site from core-module change handling, adds netlify.toml to excluded files, and removes exclusions for Pipfile*, requirements.txt, and runtime.txt.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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Suggested reviewers: mdelapenya

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A documentation-only change can unnecessarily run the full module lint and test workload, increasing CI time and resource usage.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title concisely and accurately summarizes the primary change: moving documentation Python tooling out of the root Go module.
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