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Storage in Kubernetes

  • Storage and stateful workloads are harder in all systems
  • Containers make it both harder and easier than before
  • StatefulSets is a new resource type, making Pods more sticky
  • Avoid stateful deployments for first few deployments until you're good at the basics
  • Use Database-as-a-Service whenever you can
  • Creating and connecting volumes: 2 types
    • Volumes
      • Tied to a lifecycle of a Pod
      • All containers in a single pod can share them
    • PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims
      • Created at a cluster level, outlives a Pod
      • Separates a storage config from Pod using it
      • Multiple Pods can share them
  • CSI (Container Storage Interface) plugins are the new way to connect to storage