Initial commit: VMware vSphere API simulator scaffold.

Add the FastAPI app, PostgreSQL migrations, Docker/Helm packaging, API
contracts, docs, client examples, and the unit/integration/compatibility
test suite for local client and tooling labs without a real vCenter.

app/web/assets.py

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+"""Static web console assets."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+_WEB_ROOT = Path(__file__).parent
+_CONSOLE_HTML = _WEB_ROOT / "index.html"
+_COMPACT_CONSOLE_HTML = _WEB_ROOT / "console.html"
+
+
+def console_html() -> str:
+    """Return the latest lab UI markup from disk."""
+
+    return _CONSOLE_HTML.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def compact_console_html() -> str:
+    """Return the compact vSphere session console markup."""
+
+    return _COMPACT_CONSOLE_HTML.read_text(encoding="utf-8")