[7.17] Change deprecation warning for elasticsearch.username #124717
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Resolves #124691.
The Upgrade Assistant tells users to use the Elasticsearch service account CLI to create a service account token. We have discovered that this is the wrong approach, because it will only work for a single ES node, so we should instead direct users to use the API to create a service account token.
Here is what the deprecation looks like in the Upgrade Assistant with these changes:
Release note: The upgrade assistant guidance for
elasticsearch.username
deprecation has been updated to reflect that service account tokens should only be created using the Elasticsearch API.