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+from fixtures.neon_fixtures import (
+    NeonEnvBuilder,
+)
+from fixtures.remote_storage import s3_storage
+
+
+def test_sharding_smoke(
+    neon_env_builder: NeonEnvBuilder,
+):
+    """
+    Test the basic lifecycle of a sharded tenant:
+     - ingested data gets split up
+     - page service reads
+     - timeline creation and deletion
+     - splits
+    """
+
+    shard_count = 4
+    neon_env_builder.num_pageservers = shard_count
+
+    # 1MiB stripes: enable getting some meaningful data distribution without
+    # writing large quantities of data in this test.
+    stripe_size = 128
+
+    neon_env_builder.enable_pageserver_remote_storage(s3_storage())
+    neon_env_builder.enable_scrub_on_exit()
+    neon_env_builder.preserve_database_files = True
+
+    env = neon_env_builder.init_start(
+        initial_tenant_shard_count=shard_count, initial_tenant_shard_stripe_size=stripe_size
+    )
+
+    for ps in env.pageservers:
+        ps.allowed_errors.extend(
+            [
+                # FIXME: during a split, control plane should respond affirmatively to validation requests
+                # that refer to a shard that no longer exists, but has a child shard.
+                ".*Dropped remote consistent LSN updates.*",
+                # FIXME: improve logging in the pageserver so that this isn't considered an erorr, or
+                # figure out how to make the migration even more seamless.
+                ".*Tenant.*is not active.*",
+            ]
+        )
+
+    # TODO: do some timeline creations & deletions on the sharded tenant
+    # TODO: validate that timeline APIs show the created timelines on all shards