Improve shard collocation when scheduling #5808
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Description
When placing new shards for an existing source, when affinity is not defined (e.g Kafka source), we currently have no affinity for nodes where we have existing indexing pipelines. This can create a fragmented distribution of shards.
This solution is not perfect, ideally we should split the assignation in two steps (just as we do for the shard affinity):
How was this PR tested?
Added unit test