Add a tutorial for the Helix Gateway Service The Gateway service is the main architectural addition in 2.0.0, but the 2.0.1 docs mentioned it only in passing: six word-mentions across two pages, no tutorial page, and no entry in the tutorial outline. Add tutorial_gateway.md, written from the helix-gateway source, link it from the tutorial outline, and add a short Gateway section with a topology figure to the README. The page describes the Gateway as an additional participation mode rather than a replacement. The 2.0.0 release notes call it "replacing the legacy state transition message approach", but helix-core carries no reference to the Gateway and no dependency on helix-gateway, so the controller cannot tell a Gateway-backed participant from any other and emits the same state transition messages either way. The Gateway joins through the ordinary participant API and registers a catch-all @Transition handler, and the embedded participant API is not deprecated. What actually changes is where the Helix client and its ZooKeeper connection live. For the same reason the page avoids claiming the Gateway collapses ZooKeeper usage to a single connection. A HelixGatewayParticipant is created per connecting instance, and each one constructs its own ZKHelixManager and calls connect(), so N app nodes mean N connections consolidated into the Gateway process rather than eliminated, and the Gateway becomes a component whose availability affects every instance behind it. The page also covers the state transition translation rules, the gRPC contract, a client-side quick start, a 1.x-versus-2.0 comparison, channel configuration with its defaults, and the current limitations: OnlineOffline is the only supported state model and hybrid channel modes are unsupported. Three figures are included. They are referenced the way every other Helix page references images, which resolves against the generated site rather than the repository layout. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

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Helix is a generic cluster management framework used for automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed resources hosted on a cluster of nodes. Helix provides the following features:
Helix 2.0 adds the Helix Gateway Service, which lets an application join a Helix-managed cluster over gRPC without embedding the Helix library or opening its own ZooKeeper connection. The embedded participant model from 1.x is unchanged and remains fully supported.