diff --git a/conf/content-replayer.yml.example b/conf/content-replayer.yml.example
index 00014cb..fe584a9 100644
--- a/conf/content-replayer.yml.example
+++ b/conf/content-replayer.yml.example
@@ -1,36 +1,35 @@
 objstorage:
   cls: remote
   url: http://storage0.euwest.azure.internal.softwareheritage.org:5003
   max_retries: 5
   pool_connections: 100
   pool_maxsize: 200
 
 objstorage_dst:
   cls: remote
-  args:
-    url: http://objstorage:5003
+  url: http://objstorage:5003
 
 journal_client:
   cls: kafka
   brokers:
     - kafka1
     - kafka2
     - kafka3
   group_id: test-user-content-replayer-x-change-me
   sasl.username: test-user
   sasl.password: change-me
   security.protocol: sasl_ssl
   sasl.mechanism: SCRAM-SHA-512
   session.timeout.ms: 600000
   max.poll.interval.ms: 3600000
   message.max.bytes: 1000000000
   privileged: true
   batch_size: 2000
 
 replayer:
   error_reporter:
     # used to track objects that the replayer really failed at replication from
     # the source objstorage to the destination one
     host: redis
     port: 6379
     db: 0
diff --git a/conf/objstorage.yml b/conf/objstorage.yml
index dde0323..e7c6fb8 100644
--- a/conf/objstorage.yml
+++ b/conf/objstorage.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 objstorage:
   cls: pathslicing
-  args:
-    root: /srv/softwareheritage/objects
-    slicing: 0:5
+  root: /srv/softwareheritage/objects
+  slicing: 0:5
 
 client_max_size: 1073741824
diff --git a/conf/storage.yml b/conf/storage.yml
index 61c791e..4cd15c7 100644
--- a/conf/storage.yml
+++ b/conf/storage.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 storage:
-  cls: local
-  args:
-    db: postgresql:///?service=swh
-    objstorage:
-      cls: remote
-      args:
-        url: http://objstorage:5003/
+  cls: postgresql
+  db: postgresql:///?service=swh
+  objstorage:
+    cls: remote
+    url: http://objstorage:5003/