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Update docs around tasks and _task bucket

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Description

Include info that addresses the following:

- Procedural content: what is the failure/recover behaviour of tasks surrounding task fails?
- If “the task engine” fails (an internal / 500 failure), the task is rescheduled.
- If the task itself fails (a user / 400 failure) fails 5 times in a row, the task is paused.
- Is there a certain number of failures in a certain period of time
cc @aanthony1243 for review/to verify functionality
- Conceptual/overview content: In general, design tasks to be idempotent and approach task processing as an at-least-once process (does this mean process at least once?). The task system as a set of processors taking scheduled tasks off a queue.
- In the context of preparing to 'migrate to cloud', why are tasks in 2.0 better and/or how can folks most easiely handle tasks coming from Enterprise or Cloud 1.x

Slack [discussion](https://influxdata.slack.com/archives/CDBJ35NBV/p1628674778026100)

##### Relevant URLs

- _task bucket reference doc: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/cloud/reference/internals/system-buckets/
- tasks procedural (how to) docs: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/cloud/process-data/manage-tasks/

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