This a persistent virtual machine running in the UoW Cloud. It survives even if you tear down the MiCADO deployment with [./2-delete-beast](/snet-asclepios-demo/snet-asclepios-deployment/-/blob/master/micado/2-delete-beast.sh)
It's purpose is to provide an NFS server for use with [Kubernete's NFS volumes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#nfs)
These are volumes are used to store the read-only the configuration files required by the services running on the [storage platform's `application-server`](/snet-asclepios-demo/snet-asclepios-deployment/-/blob/master/micado/sleep-sse_openstack.yaml.tpl#L15)
It was manually provisioned using Ansible by UoW staff (see "Provisioning" below)
It is possible we could avoid using this NFS node entirely by ensuring that all of the docker containers in the demonstrator stack could be configured at run-time using environment variables.