Backport of docs: Sameness Groups into release/1.16.x #17673
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Backport
This PR is auto-generated from #17628 to be assessed for backporting due to the inclusion of the label backport/1.16.
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The person who merged in the original PR is:
@boruszak
This person should manually cherry-pick the original PR into a new backport PR,
and close this one when the manual backport PR is merged in.
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Description
For the Consul v1.16 release, Sameness Groups are being introduced to Consul. Sameness groups identify partitions and cluster peers that have identical services, and they simplify the process to establish failover between partitions with a cluster peering connection.
The following pages were created for this project. Click the page for the preview deployment.
An additional page describing sameness groups as a failover strategy is being staged separately in the following PR: #17624
In addition, the following pages were updated to reference Sameness Groups:
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