Mounts also exist - in fact you can hotplug volumes on the fly on all the major clouds. People really like this cause they can do things like rotate ssl certs every few hours.
The file system exists - at the very least you need to load a program that sits on the filesystem but people are running webservers that write to temp files and load static assets and also databases.
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Packages exist: https://repo.ops.city
Mounts also exist - in fact you can hotplug volumes on the fly on all the major clouds. People really like this cause they can do things like rotate ssl certs every few hours.
The file system exists - at the very least you need to load a program that sits on the filesystem but people are running webservers that write to temp files and load static assets and also databases.