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Ensure /mnt isn't used on Azure environments

Grant Young requested to merge gy-azure-mnt-fix into main

What does this MR do?

MR switches out the use of /mnt on Azure specifically as it's a temporary directly on that platform. This isn't a standard approach but not one we can change it seems.

We used this directory in two places:

  • NFS - Moved to /srv/gitlab-nfs. This should be a seemless switch on the next Ansible run as the files will be repopulated. If NFS is being used for Objects though instead of Object storage users will need to move this over beforehand.
  • Gitaly Sharded - Moved to /var/opt/gitlab/git-data. If users are using Gitaly Sharded on Azure they will need to move their data. This is an annoyance but necessary as the Git data shouldn't be on a temp drive.

The directory use on all other cloud providers remains the same.

Related issues

Closes #629 (closed)

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Edited by Grant Young

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