In `ks_prop_defs::as_ks_metadata(...)` a default initial tablets count
is set to 0, when tablets are enabled and the replication strategy
is NetworkReplicationStrategy.
This effectively sets _uses_tablets = false in abstract_replication_strategy
for the remaining strategies when no `tablets = {...}` options are specified.
As a consequence, it is possible to create vnode-based keyspaces even
when tablets are enforced with `tablets_mode_for_new_keyspaces`.
The patch sets a default initial tablets count to zero regardless of
the chosen replication strategy. Then each of the replication strategy
validates the options and raises a configuration exception when tablets
are not supported.
All tests are altered in the following way:
+ whenever it was correct, SimpleStrategy was replaced with NetworkTopologyStrategy
+ otherwise, tablets were explicitly disabled with ` AND tablets = {'enabled': false}`
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/25340Closesscylladb/scylladb#25342
Finishing the deprecation of the skip_mode function in favor of
pytest.mark.skip_mode. This PR is only cleaning and migrating leftover tests
that are still used and old way of skip_mode.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28299
Function skip_mode works only on function and only in cluster test. This if OK
when we need to skip one test, but it's not possible to use it with pytestmark
to automatically mark all tests in the file. The goal of this PR is to migrate
skip_mode to be dynamic pytest.mark that can be used as ordinary mark.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#27853
[avi: apply to test/cluster/test_tablets.py::test_table_creation_wakes_up_balancer]
