A major focus for the cloud-services-team in the July 2019-June 2020 fiscal year will be improving and enhancing the storage systems that we use both "in the backend" for managing Cloud VPS instance virtual disks and in the more visible areas such as our current NFS system. The backend project will be worked on first, but we hope that work will lead to us being able to provide other features like an S3-like bucket+object storage interface in the later stages of the project. We are not ready to make any timeline commitments yet for when this might be available in Toolforge and other Cloud VPS projects.

As a concrete example cluebotng-trainer currently uses NFS for storing artefacts from training runs; this would easy fit into an object store model allowing 0 NFS usage in that namespace (currently 1 container provides read/write access to NFS for other containers)