Kubernetes Persistent Volumes (PV)

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

GCEPersistentDisk
AWSElasticBlockStore
AzureFile
AzureDisk
CSI (Container Storage Interface)
FC (Fibre Channel)
FlexVolume (deprecated)
Flocker
NFS
iSCSI
RBD (Ceph Block Device)
CephFS
Cinder (OpenStack block storage)
Glusterfs
VsphereVolume
Quobyte Volumes
HostPath (Single node testing only -- local storage is not supported in any way and WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster)
Portworx Volumes
ScaleIO Volumes
StorageOS
Persisten

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

News

• v1.11 Resizing Persistent Volumes using Kubernetes in alpha

Related terms

• Persistent Volume Claim (PVC)
• Volumes (Kubernetes)
• kubectl apply

See also

• Kubernetes: distributions, tools, CKA, CKS, Kubernetes interfaces: CSI, CNI, installation, workloads, networking, kubeadm, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Server, kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, kube-proxy, Cloud services: EKS, GKE, TKE, DKS, Helm, Kubernetes RBAC, Kubernetes deployments, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes, Ingress, Kubernetes scheduler, Kubernetes Finalizers, logging, Kubernetes operator, Orka, kind:, Kubernetes namespaces, Kubernetes dashboard, Kubernetes Metrics Server, Field Selectors, CoreDNS, CRI, Kubernetes Topology Manager, Kubernetes governance: (SIG, KEP), Kustomize, controllers, ReadinessProbe, LivenessProbe, KOPS, K9s, Kui, k3s, ImagePullBackOff, PDB, EndPoints, Kots, metadata, Karpenter, Replicated.com, Kubernetes Authenticating, Kubernetes timeline, Changelog/Versions, service accounts, Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle, Kubernetes Conformance Certified, Kubernetes backup, Kubernetes Pod Security Admission, tEKS, Kubernetes events, Kubernetes ports, Kubernetes policies, Connect, addons, DoKC, Kubernetes control plane, Kubernetes Federation, Kubernetes info, Kubetest2, Sidecar (Kubernetes)