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12. Persistent Volumes

Philippe Martin1  
(1)
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 

A persistent volume (PV) is a storage resource provisioned by the cluster administrators. The provisioning can be manual or automatic.

A PV declaration is made of two parts:

  • Its capabilities (access modes, capacity, storage class, volume mode – filesystem or raw)

  • Its implementation (local, NFS, cloud storage resource, etc.)

These storage resources are intended to be used by Pods, through the use of PersistentVolumeClaims: a Pod will claim a persistent volume with specific capabilities, and Kubernetes will try to find a persistent ...

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