Merge branch 'docs-ref-arch-2k-sidekiq-updates' into 'master'

Update 2k reference architecture guidance for Sidekiq

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/143539



Merged-by: Achilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Grant Young <gyoung@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Achilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Grant Young <gyoung@gitlab.com>
Reviewed-by: Nailia Iskhakova <niskhakova@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Grant Young <gyoung@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: Nailia Iskhakova <niskhakova@gitlab.com>

doc/administration/reference_architectures/2k_users.md

@@ -55,7 +55,11 @@ skinparam linetype ortho
 
 card "**External Load Balancer**" as elb #6a9be7
 
-collections "**GitLab Rails** x2" as gitlab #32CD32
+together {
+  collections "**GitLab Rails** x2" as gitlab #32CD32
+  card "**Sidekiq**" as sidekiq #ff8dd1
+}
+
 card "**Prometheus**" as monitor #7FFFD4
 card "**Gitaly**" as gitaly #FF8C00
 card "**PostgreSQL**" as postgres #4EA7FF
@@ -70,11 +74,17 @@ gitlab -[#32CD32]--> postgres
 gitlab -[#32CD32]-> object_storage
 gitlab -[#32CD32]--> redis
 
+sidekiq -[#ff8dd1]r-> object_storage
+sidekiq -[#ff8dd1]----> redis
+sidekiq .[#ff8dd1]----> postgres
+sidekiq -[hidden]-> monitor
+
 monitor .[#7FFFD4]u-> gitlab
 monitor .[#7FFFD4]-> gitaly
 monitor .[#7FFFD4]-> postgres
 monitor .[#7FFFD4,norank]--> redis
 monitor .[#7FFFD4,norank]u--> elb
+monitor .[#7FFFD4]u-> sidekiq
 
 @enduml
 ```
@@ -294,7 +304,7 @@ If you use a third party external service:
 
    - `POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD_HASH` - The value output from the previous step
    - `APPLICATION_SERVER_IP_BLOCKS` - A space delimited list of IP subnets or IP
-     addresses of the GitLab application servers that will connect to the
+     addresses of the GitLab Rails and Sidekiq servers that will connect to the
      database. Example: `%w(123.123.123.123/32 123.123.123.234/32)`
 
    ```ruby
@@ -783,6 +793,7 @@ On each node perform the following:
    roles(['application_role'])
    gitaly['enable'] = false
    nginx['enable'] = true
+   sidekiq['enable'] = false
 
    ## PostgreSQL connection details
    gitlab_rails['db_adapter'] = 'postgresql'
@@ -800,10 +811,6 @@ On each node perform the following:
    gitlab_workhorse['prometheus_listen_addr'] = '0.0.0.0:9229'
    puma['listen'] = '0.0.0.0'
 
-   # Configure Sidekiq with 2 workers and 20 max concurrency
-   sidekiq['max_concurrency'] = 20
-   sidekiq['queue_groups'] = ['*'] * 2
-
    # Add the monitoring node's IP address to the monitoring whitelist and allow it to
    # scrape the NGINX metrics. Replace placeholder `monitoring.gitlab.example.com` with
    # the address and/or subnets gathered from the monitoring node

doc/administration/reference_architectures/index.md

@@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ You can find a full history of changes [on the GitLab project](https://gitlab.co
 
 **2024:**
 
+- [2024-02](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/143539): Adjusted the Sidekiq recommendations on 2k to disable Sidekiq on Rails nodes and updated architecture diagram
 - [2024-01](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/140465): Updated recommendations for Azure for all Reference Architecture sizes and latest cloud services.
 
 **2023:**