If you are planning to use gitaly without NFS for your storage needs
If you are planning to use Gitaly without NFS for your storage needs
and want to eliminate NFS from your environment altogether, there are
and want to eliminate NFS from your environment altogether, there are
a few things that you need to do:
a few things that you need to do:
1. Make sure the [`git` user home directory](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/configuration.html#moving-the-home-directory-for-a-user) is on local disk
1. Make sure the [`git` user home directory](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/configuration.html#moving-the-home-directory-for-a-user) is on local disk.
1. Configure [database lookup of ssh keys](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/operations/fast_ssh_key_lookup.html)
1. Configure [database lookup of SSH keys](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/operations/fast_ssh_key_lookup.html)
to eliminate the need for a shared authorized_keys file
to eliminate the need for a shared authorized_keys file.
1. Configure [object storage for job artifacts](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/job_artifacts.html#using-object-storage)
1. Configure [object storage for job artifacts](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/job_artifacts.html#using-object-storage)
including [live tracing](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/job_traces.html#new-live-trace-architecture)
including [live tracing](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/job_traces.html#new-live-trace-architecture).
1. Configure [object storage for LFS objects](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.html#storing-lfs-objects-in-remote-object-storage)
1. Configure [object storage for LFS objects](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.html#storing-lfs-objects-in-remote-object-storage).
1. Configure [object storage for uploads](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/uploads.html#using-object-storage-core-only)
1. Configure [object storage for uploads](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/uploads.html#using-object-storage-core-only).
NOTE: **Note:** One current feature of GitLab still requires a shared directory (NFS): Pages.
NOTE: **Note:** One current feature of GitLab still requires a shared directory (NFS): [GitLab Pages](../../user/project/pages/index.md).
There is [work in progress](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/issues/196)
There is [work in progress](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/issues/196)
to eliminate the need for NFS to support Pages.
to eliminate the need for NFS to support GitLab Pages.
