Kubernetes Persistent Volumes (PV)

Kubernetes Persistent Volumes subsystem provides an API for users and administrators that abstracts details of how storage is provided from how it is consumed

• kubectl get pvc
• kubectl describe pvc mysql-pv-claim

Volumes:
VolumeMounts:
ExtraVolumes

Examples

Volumes:
 your-vol-1:
   Type:      ConfigMap (a volume populated by a ConfigMap)
   Name:      prod-admin-config
   Optional:  false
 your-vol-2:
   Type:        Secret (a volume populated by a Secret)
   SecretName:  your-secret-name
   Optional:    false
 your-vol-3:
   Type:                    Projected (a volume that contains injected data from multiple sources)
   TokenExpirationSeconds:  3607
   ConfigMapName:          your-kube-root-ca.crt
   ConfigMapOptional:       <nil>
   DownwardAPI:             true

spec:
  volumes:
    - name: elasticsearch-master
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: elasticsearch-master-elasticsearch-master-0
    - name: mynewvolumen
      emptyDir: {}

News

• Jun 2018 v1.11 Resizing Persistent Volumes using Kubernetes in alpha

Related terms

• Persistent Volume Claim (PVC)
• Volumes (Kubernetes)
• kubectl apply
• Container Storage Interface (CSI)
• defaultMode:

See also

• Kubernetes storage, storage classes, PersistentVolume (PV), PVC, CSI, kind: StorageClass, kind: PersistentVolumeClaim, kind: PersistentVolume, kubectl [ get | describe | edit ] pvc, volumeClaimTemplates:, kubectl patch pv, FailedMount, Volume Expansion, Volume Cloning, snapshots, ExtraVolumes, NotTriggerScaleUp, volumePVCDataSource, AllowVolumeExpansion, EKS storage, provisioner, Storage Capacity Tracking, VolumeBinding, VolumeClaimTemplate, storage.k8s.io, CKA Storage, DoKC, EmptyDir, Volume populators