Don't recomment hash

[nigoroll]

Varnish-Cache maintainer and author of the shard director here.

I strongly recommend not to recommend the hash director:

kube-httpcache/chart/values.yaml

Line 287 in f978b95

new cluster = directors.hash();

I recommend to use vmod_cluster, or at least the shard director with a bit of VCL (which you can also find in vmod_cluster)

[pserrano]

@nigoroll Could you explain more deeper this thing? I have a huge cluster running with this and I didn't see problems using this setup. Also, I can do the patch to fix if it's necessary.

[nigoroll]

@pserrano For the simple case of your varnish cluster being stable (no nodes joining or leaving, health state always good), there is no relevant difference between the simple modulo hashing implemented by directors.hash(), but with any change in membership/health, disruptions become global.
shard uses consistent hashing to keep the association of objects (actually hashes as calculated by sub vcl_hash {}) to nodes as stable as possible. For more background, please refer to the documentation.