Maintaining environments across multiple machines

I’m a system admin with no Conda experience trying to help some scientists with their miniconda installs. We have found that using NFS for the location of the miniconda install has terrible performance but using a local disk it is great, that makes sense to me given the large number of small files in the miniconda directory tree. However we need to maintain consistent install and environments across many servers so that’s why using NFS seemed attractive. Is there an approved method for keeping both the install of miniconda and all the environments in sync across multiple independent machines without using NFS or SMB? I see several commands like export and import and others that seem like they can help but putting it all together would be nice.

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Hi Thomas - I’m a product manager at Anaconda. There are several potential ways to solve your problem, and I’m actively working on refining this area. If you’re open to it, it would great to chat directly. I sent you a DM with my contact info. Thanks!