[Serverless]: Clarify Serverless and Stateful clients compatibility with Serverless and non-Serverless environments

[ppf2]

Serverless Docs

Elasticsearch

Description

Let's clarify Serverless clients vs. non-Serverless clients: https://www.elastic.co/docs/current/serverless/elasticsearch/clients

We have seen confusion by multiple customers while reviewing Serverless cases where they are attempting to use Serverless clients against non-Serverless deployments and vice versa.

In short, our current stance is:

• Serverless client will only work on Serverless
• Non-Serverless (Stateful) clients may work on Serverless but there will be a lag in the release to support Serverless features. Also some feature gap like autocomplete are not supported when used with Serverless. @technige can provide additional details.

It will be helpful to put up banners for each language client's documentation page on both Serverless and Stateful clients documentation so that regardless of whether the customer lands in Serverless clients documentation or Stateful clients documentation, they will see a disclaimer about these clients' compatibility with Serverless and non-Serverless environments.

Resources and additional context

https://www.elastic.co/docs/current/serverless/elasticsearch/clients
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/index.html

[marciw]

• Part 1, in progress: add banners to serverless client docs: Add banners noting that serverless clients are serverless only #198
• Part 2, not required for serverless GA: elastic/search-docs-team#225

[marciw]

I temporarily reopened this because I thought I needed to track the Part 2 work in this issue, but we'll do that in the other issue. Closing again.