A key requirement of our database service is persistent storage, and for our single-node local Kubernetes development environment, the hostPath volume type represents the standard option for providing simple persistent storage requirements.
Although you can create a hostPath volume very easily by specifying a path directly in your volume definition (see the example pod definition at https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#hostpath), one problem with such an approach is that it creates a hard dependency on the underlying volume type, and also requires manual cleanup if you ever want to delete the pod and the data associated with the volumes.
A very useful feature of the Docker Desktop Kubernetes support ...
