I'd like shared home directories in our environment so it's possible for users to log in across a variety of machines and have their local environment accessible.
The machines are typically long-standing servers altho it's certainly possible users would have to login to a machine in an autoscaling group that needs to spin up as soon as possible.
For some background, I'm trying to cover my ass on a per-service basis by thinking about failure scenarios and it's been about 15 years since I've last needed to mount NFS/CIFS regularly--and even back then it was on a much smaller and clearly less important scale than this.
So my potential problem, as far as I can tell, is that if the less-critical remote host from which we are mounting /home is down, there could be a lot of downtime as automounting times out, and after that, /home might be needed to be remounted across up to a hundred machines or so. This is something I'd clearly like to avoid, and this very problem has prevented us from effectively using network filesystems in the past outside of the context of /home mounting.
Does anyone here have experience with reliable remote mounting and can share their success stories? We are married to AWS and lean towards them but I'm not sure they offer something we can use, and definitely prefer a minimalist architecture where possible with as few, if any, additional components.
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