DOC-712 Cloud leader pinning (#131)

* DOC-712 Cloud leader pinning

* Update local-antora-playbook.yml

* Update local-antora-playbook.yml

* fix env-cloud

* remove categories

* add to What's New in Cloud

* remove 24.3 beta from include directive

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Co-authored-by: Jake Cahill <[email protected]>

Author: micheleRP

local-antora-playbook.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ content:
   - url: .
     branches: HEAD
   - url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/documentation
-    branches: [main, v/*, v-WIP/24.3, api, shared, site-search]
+    branches: [main, v/*, 'DOC-773-single-source-leader-pinning', api, shared, site-search]
   - url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda-labs
     branches: main
     start_paths: [docs,'*/docs']

modules/ROOT/nav.adoc

@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@
 ** xref:develop:produce-data/index.adoc[Produce Data]
 *** xref:develop:produce-data/configure-producers.adoc[]
 *** xref:develop:produce-data/idempotent-producers.adoc[Idempotent Producers]
+*** xref:develop:produce-data/leader-pinning.adoc[]
 ** xref:develop:consume-data/index.adoc[Consume Data]
 *** xref:develop:consume-data/consumer-offsets.adoc[Consumer Offsets]
 *** xref:develop:consume-data/follower-fetching.adoc[Follower Fetching]

modules/develop/pages/consume-data/follower-fetching.adoc

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 = Follower Fetching
 :page-categories: Clients, Development
-
 include::ROOT:develop:consume-data/follower-fetching.adoc[tag=single-source]

modules/develop/pages/produce-data/configure-producers.adoc

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 = Configure Producers
 :page-aliases: development:configure-producers.adoc
 :page-categories: Clients, Development
-
 include::ROOT:develop:produce-data/configure-producers.adoc[tag=single-source]

modules/develop/pages/produce-data/leader-pinning.adoc

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+= Leader Pinning
+include::ROOT:develop:produce-data/leader-pinning.adoc[tag=single-source]

modules/get-started/pages/whats-new-cloud.adoc

@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ This page lists new features added in Redpanda Cloud.
 
 Redpanda Connect is now available on Dedicated clusters. This is a limited availability (LA) release. xref:develop:connect/configuration/secret-management.adoc[Secret management] is also available on BYOC, Dedicated, and Serverless clusters so that you can add secrets to your pipelines without exposing them.
 
+=== Leader pinning
+
+For a Redpanda cluster deployed across multiple availability zones (AZs), xref:develop:produce-data/leader-pinning.adoc[leader pinning] ensures that a topic's partition leaders are geographically closer to clients. Leader pinning can lower networking costs and help guarantee lower latency by routing produce and consume requests to brokers located in certain AZs.
+
 == November 2024
 
 === Customer-managed VPC on AWS: beta