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Can migrate LFS objects to S3 style object storage

What

Allows LfsObjects to be individually migrated to object storage
Reuses code from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/1762/diffs?diff_id=4841606#0ef14ca7e447f477230136ca76fb4ab0bed43af4
Currently provides a rake task for this in the same way as for artifacts, as well as scheduling a ObjectStorageUploadWorker automatically

Why

Reduce space usage and load on git storage disks

Todo

Screenshots (if relevant)

Acceptance criteria

Changelog entry added, if necessary
Documentation created/updated
API support added
Tests added for this feature/bug
Conform by the merge request performance guides

Related

Fixes https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/2841

Edited Sep 07, 2017 by James Edwards-Jones