RADOS Gateway standard setup, installation, and configuration

For a production environment, it's recommended that you configure the RGW on a physical, dedicated machine. However, if your object storage workload is not too much, you can consider using any of the monitor machines as an RGW node. The RGW is a separate service that externally connects to a Ceph cluster and provides object storage access to its clients. In a production environment, it's recommended that you run more than one instance of the RGW, masked by a load balancer, as shown in the following diagram:

RADOS Gateway standard setup, installation, and configuration

Starting with the Firefly release of Ceph, a new RGW frontend had been introduced: ...

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