Update CD Rails design proposal with environment tiers

What does this MR do and why?

Update the GitLab CD Rails design proposal to document the environment-tier work shipped during Beta, as per the decisions made in https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/work_items/21247#note_3448765760.

The proposal previously described cd_environments with only name and description. This MR:

  • Adds tier to the cd_environments schema in the ERD and the table description.
  • Adds a new "Environment tiers" subsection explaining the design call: a fixed smallint enum on cd_environments.tier for Beta, replaced by a user-defined cd_environment_tiers table post-Beta, plus the migration plan.
  • Links Environment in the entities list to the new subsection.

Details

The corresponding implementation has already landed:

The post-Beta follow-up (user-defined tiers, cd_environment_tiers table, management UI) is tracked in gitlab-org/gitlab#604327.

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