Docs: Migrate Gitaly chart to external Gitaly service
What does this MR do?
We recommend in our docs that customers should not use the Gitaly chart in a production environment.
We should add some docs that instruct how to migrate from the Gitaly chart to an external Gitaly service.
repository storage moves API?
Why backup/restore as documented in this MR instead of using theThe repository storage moves API requires that all Gitaly servers are visible to each other. This is a problem because the underlying Gitaly pod in the Chart is only accessible within the cluster.
To keep things simple, I have opted for the backup/restore approach but it does mean there will be downtime.
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