Backend GKE Deploy, access key for backend

- Configs and automation for deploying backend to GKE
- First steps to adding an optional token check for requests to backend
- First steps frontend sending optional token to backend when configured

ui/components/SearchImages.tsx

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { useState } from 'react';
 import Lightbox from 'yet-another-react-lightbox';
 import 'yet-another-react-lightbox/styles.css';
 import { Message } from './ChatWindow';
+import { clientFetch } from '@/lib/utils';
 
 type Image = {
   url: string;
@@ -33,8 +34,8 @@ const SearchImages = ({
             const chatModelProvider = localStorage.getItem('chatModelProvider');
             const chatModel = localStorage.getItem('chatModel');
 
-            const res = await fetch(
-              `${process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL}/images`,
+            const res = await clientFetch(
+              '/images',
               {
                 method: 'POST',
                 headers: {