Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

NFS

You can mount an network filesystem (NFS) to your Pod as nfs volume. Multiple Pods can mount and share the files in the same nfs volume. The data stored into nfs volume will be persistent across the Pod lifetime. You have to create your own NFS server before using nfs volume, and make sure the nfs-utils package is installed on Kubernetes minions.

Check whether your NFS server works before you go. You should check out the /etc/exports file with a proper sharing parameter and directory, and use the mount -t nfs <nfs server>:<share name> <local mounted point> command to check whether it could be mounted locally.

The configuration file of the volume type with NFS is similar to others, but nfs.server and nfs.path are required in the volume ...