Describe in greater detail the function of Zones in serving S3 objects,
as requested by Alexander Patrakov here:
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/49981#issuecomment-
1615866374.
Signed-off-by: Zac Dover <zac.dover@proton.me>
(cherry picked from commit
8dab6c066c4dd3699c7b7c80f7a30a0e18326bba)
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A zone defines a logical group that consists of one or more Ceph Object Gateway
-instances. Ceph Object Gateway supports zones.
+instances. All RGWs in a given zone serve S3 objects that are backed by RADOS objects that are stored in the same set of pools in the same cluster. Ceph Object Gateway supports zones.
The procedure for configuring zones differs from typical configuration
procedures, because not all of the settings end up in a Ceph configuration