Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

gcePersistentDisk

gcePersistentDisk volume mounts a Google Compute Engine (GCE) Persistent Disk (PD) into a Pod. If you provision it statically, you'll have to create it first with the gcloud command or in the GCE console. The following is an example:

# cat 2-6-8_gce/static_mount.yamlapiVersion: v1kind: Podmetadata:  name: gce-pd-podspec:  containers:  - image: nginx    name: gce-pd-example    volumeMounts:    - mountPath: /mount-path      name: gce-pd      ports:        - containerPort: 80  volumes:  - name: gce-pd    gcePersistentDisk:      pdName: example      fsType: ext4

Alternatively, and more cost-effectively, we could use dynamic provisioning. Then we don't need to provision PD beforehand. For enabling dynamic provisioning, the DefaultStorageClass admission controller has ...