An illustrated embodiment disclosed herein relates to a hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) having an object storage system (OSS) with an apparatus having a processor with programmed instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include specifying a first object in the OSS as an executable, specifying a second object in the OSS as an environment on which to run the first object, specifying a third object in the OSS as data to be processed by the first object, and constructing and storing a composite object in the OSS that associates the first, second, and third objects. The composite object provides a technical improvement, providing more direct access to compute resources.