How to create PV and PVC in Kubernetes

Pods are made up of multiple containers, so when volume attach to the pod all the containers running inside the pod can access to volume as a result for read and write purpose.

Volumes can be store in Virtual machines and Physical machines. We use PV and PVC to provide storage in Kubernetes.

Persistent Volume (PV)

Kubernetes makes physical storage devices such as our SSDs, NFS servers available to your cluster in the form of objects called Persistent Volumes.

It is a piece of pre-provision storage inside the cluster and provision by Administrator.

Data Inside this volumes can exist beyond the Life-cycle of pod.

A Persistent Volume is an abstraction for the physical storage device that you have attached to the cluster and pods can use this storage space using Persistent Volume Claims.

Persistent Volume Claim (PVC)

Persistent Volume Claim is a storage request by a user, typically developer.

Developer request for some capacity along with some access mode like read/write or read-only.

Claims can request specific size and access modes, for example they can be mounted once read/write or many times read-only.

If none of the static persistent volumes match the user’s PVC request, the cluster may attempt to dynamically create a PV that matches the PVC request based on storage class.

Creating PV and PVC :-

Example: Claiming 3GB storage from the 10GB capacity.

PV Manifest file (pv-1.yml)

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: pv-volume-2
  labels:
    type: local
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  capacity:
    storage: 10Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: "/mnt/data"

PVC Manifest file (pvc-claim.yml)

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: pvc-claim-2
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 3Gi

Commands to run:

1. Create the persistence volume file using :

$ kubectl create -f pv.yml

2. Get the persistence volume information :

$ kubectl get pv  pv-volume-2

3. Create the persistence volume claim file using:

$ kubectl create -f pvc-1.yml

4. Check for the status of PV :

$ kubectl get pv  pv-volume-1

5. Claiming the required storage :

$ kubectl get pvc pvc-claim-1

Clean Up : –

$ kubectl delete pv -f pv-1.yml
$ kubectl delete pvc -f pvc-claim.yml

References:-

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/