Add the dagger.#Plan core concept to Europa Docs

This is the entry point for all other core concepts.

Signed-off-by: Gerhard Lazu <gerhard@lazu.co.uk>
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# It all starts with a plan
A CI/CD pipeline declared in Dagger starts with a plan, specifically `dagger.#Plan`
This plan is the entrypoint for everything that runs within a pipeline.
The simplest plan will have at least one input - the source code - and a few actions, usually build, test & deploy.
This is our **Getting Started** example app plan structure:
```cue
dagger.#Plan & {
inputs: {
directories: app: path: "./"
// ...
}
actions: {
build: yarn.#Build & {
// ...
}
test: yarn.#Run & {
// ...
}
// ...
}
}
```
When the above plan gets executed via `dagger up`, it produces the following output:
```shell
dagger up dev.cue
[✔] inputs.directories.app 0.1s
[✔] actions.build 0.6s
[✔] actions.test 0.6s
```
Since these actions have run before, they are cached and take less than 1 second to complete.
While the names used for the actions above - `build`, `test` - are short & descriptive,
any other names would have worked. Put differently, action naming does not affect plan execution.
In the example above, the `build` action is an instance of the yarn package build definition.
This is written as `build: yarn.#Build`
Default definition configuration can be modified via curly brackets, e.g.
```cue
actions: {
build: yarn.#Build & {
// ...
}
```
We can build complex pipelines efficiently by referencing any definition, from any package in our actions.
This is one of the fundamental concepts that makes Dagger a powerful devkit for CI/CD.
Before we can use a package in a plan, we need to declare it at the top of the pipeline configuration, like this:
```cue
import (
"universe.dagger.io/yarn"
)
```
Since we are using the plan definition from the dagger package - `dagger.#Plan` - we also need to declare it at the top of the pipeline configuration:
```cue
import (
"dagger.io/dagger"
"universe.dagger.io/yarn"
)
```
Now that we understand the basics of a Dagger plan, we are ready to learn more about inputs and how to configure them.
This will enable us to configure plans just-in-time, which is something that typically happanes on every CI run.