sharidng: update doc to only mention auto_shard experimental

There are been members of the community running sharding in production
and it's awesome. It's just the auto-sharding swift of that remains
experimental.

This patch removes the big sharding warning from the top of the
sharding overview page and better emphasises that it's the audo_shard
option that isn't ready for production use.

Change-Id: Id2c842cffad58fb6fd5e1d12619c46ffcb38f8a5
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Matthew Oliver 2021-10-19 12:53:04 +11:00
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@ -9,9 +9,8 @@ very large container databases into a number of smaller shard containers
.. note::
Container sharding is currently an experimental feature. It is strongly
recommended that operators gain experience of sharding containers in a
non-production cluster before using in production.
It is strongly recommended that operators gain experience of sharding
containers in a non-production cluster before using in production.
The sharding process involves moving all sharding container database
records via the container replication engine; the time taken to complete
@ -128,13 +127,14 @@ section is shown in the `container-server.conf-sample` file.
.. note::
The ``auto_shard`` option is currently **NOT** recommended for production
systems and should be set to ``false`` (the default value).
Several of the ``[container-sharder]`` config options are only significant
when the ``auto_shard`` option is enabled. This option enables the
``container-sharder`` daemon to automatically identify containers that are
candidates for sharding and initiate the sharding process, instead of using
the ``swift-manage-shard-ranges`` tool. The ``auto_shard`` option is
currently NOT recommended for production systems and shoud be set to
``false`` (the default value).
the ``swift-manage-shard-ranges`` tool.
The container sharder uses an internal client and therefore requires an
internal client configuration file to exist. By default the internal-client