Move drupal static files to S3

[irabinovitch]

We'd like to setup some HA/failover for the scale website. The issue with doing that is that drupal by default stores static files on the local disk of the web server. Can we move this to S3 using the S3FS plugin?
https://www.drupal.org/project/s3fs

[irabinovitch]

being worked on here: https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-drupal/tree/s3

[irabinovitch]

We've made some good progress here and have managed to test locally. Unfortunately in production we run some ancient PHP versions that aren't compatible witthe drupal s3fs plugin. I've done the work for an upgrade to php7 and centos8 in another ticket, and the PR for it has been merged. Once we cut over to the new server where thats deployed, we can proceed on this s3 and load balancing ticket.

[irabinovitch]

Centos8 / php7 upgrade is complete. Lets give it a day or two to make sure everything is stable, and then we can proceed with testing S3FS further.