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Persistent Storage in Kubernetes
In the previous chapters, we learned about Kubernetes’ key concepts, and this chapter is going to be the last one about that. So far, we’ve discovered that Kubernetes is about representing a desired state for all the traditional IT layers by creating an object in its etcd datastore that will be converted into actual computing resources within your clusters.
This chapter will focus on persistent storage for stateful applications. As with any other resource abstraction, this will be another set of objects that we will master to get persistent storage on your clusters. Persistent storage is achieved in Kubernetes by using the PersistentVolume resource type, which has its own mechanics. Honestly, these can be relatively ...
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