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install MinIO in a VM

Setup a new virtual machine in the gnt-dal cluster with 1TB of SSD-backed storage, running MinIO in "single node" mode.

This should get the container registry running (gitlab#89 (closed)) without running out of disk space, but also provide us with a generic object storage system that could be used for other GitLab components.

More discussion and specifications in #40478 (closed), this is also part of scaling up GitLab in general (#40479).

launch checklist:

Edited by anarcat
To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information