GCE Persistent Disks

Let's mount a gcePersistentDisk first. You can see more information about these drives here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/.

Google Persistent Disk is durable and high performance block storage for the Google Cloud Platform. Persistent Disk provides SSD and HDD storage, which can be attached to instances running in either Google Compute Engine or Google Container Engine. Storage volumes can be transparently resized, quickly backed up, and offer the ability to support simultaneous readers.

You'll need to create a Persistent Disk using the GCE GUI, API, or CLI before we're able to use it in our cluster, so let's get started:

  1. From the console, in Compute Engine, go to Disks. On this new screen, click on the ...

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