Persistent Storage

August 21, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

In this exercise, you will learn how to persist the filesystem state of your containers using dynamic volume provisioning.

Learning Goals

  • How to attach a volume to a container in a pod
  • How to use dynamic volume provisioning to create persistent block storage to save the state of your applications
  • How to create PersistentVolumes and use them with PersistentVolumeClaims

Introduction

Kubernetes, a persistent volume claim (PVC) is a request for storage by a user. It is a way for a pod to request a specific amount of storage from the cluster. When a PVC is created, it is automatically bound to a persistent volume (PV) that satisfies the PVC's requirements.

A storage class (SC) is a way to define the properties of a PV. It is a blueprint for creating PVs, and it specifies things like the type of storage, the amount of storage, and the access modes for the PV. The cluster then uses the storage class to find or create a PV that matches the PVC's requirements.

In summary:

  • PVs are the actual storage resources in the cluster
  • PVCs are requests for storage made by users
  • SCs are the specifications for creating PVs.

Exercise

Overview

  • Observe that the state of the PostgreSQL database is not persisted between pod lifecycles
  • Inspect the Available StorageClasses (sc) of the cluster
  • Create a PersistentVolume (PV) using dynamic volume provisioning
  • Consume the PersistentVolume using a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) and mount the volume to a pod
  • Delete the pod with the volume attached and observe that the state is persisted when a new pod is created

Step-by-step instructions

Step by step:

Observe that the state of the PostgreSQL database is not persisted between pod lifecycles

Deploy the manifests located in persistent-storage/start

:bulb: If you have resources already deployed from a previous exercise, you might want to clean them up first.

  • Open the frontend webpage in your browser.
  • Observe that the frontend reports that it is connected to the database.
  • Add some quotes. We will need them later to test persistence
  • Retrieve all of the quotes, and observe that your quotes are part of the retrieved quotes.
  • Now delete the postgres pod using kubectl delete pod <pod-name>
  • In the frontend webpage, retrieve quotes, and observe that you now only get the default 5 quotes from the database.

What we have observed here is that the state of our database is not persisted between pod lifecycles! To fix this, we need to persist the filesystem state of our database container to a volume.

Inspect the Available StorageClasses (sc) of the cluster

Use kubectl to get the available StorageClasses in the cluster, the shortname for StorageClass is sc:

kubectl get StorageClasses

Expected output:

NAME   PROVISIONER             RECLAIMPOLICY   VOLUMEBINDINGMODE      ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION   AGE
gp2    kubernetes.io/aws-ebs   Delete          WaitForFirstConsumer   false                  3h43m
gp3    ebs.csi.aws.com         Delete          WaitForFirstConsumer   false                  3h29m

We see that we indeed have a StorageClass available and ready for use!

:bulb: What do the columns mean?

The output of the kubectl get sc command provides some useful information about the StorageClass:

  • PROVISIONER The underlying storage provider, in this case AWS EBS (Elastic Block Storage)
  • RECLAIMPOLICY What will happen with the volume when the PersistentVolume resource is deleted, in this case Delete will delete the block storage.
  • VOLUMEBINDINGMODE specifies how to provision the actual volume, WaitForFirstConsumer will provision the actual volume object once there is a matching claim.
  • ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION defines whether a volume can be expanded in size at a later point in time.

Create a PersistentVolume (PV) using dynamic volume provisioning

Let's create a PersistentVolume (PV)!

While we could create a manifest for a PersistentVolume manually, we will not do that in this exercise.

In practice, we will almost always create a PersistentVolume by creating a PersistentVolumeClaim, which uses a StorageClass to create the actual volume.

Create a new file persistent-storage/start/postgres-pvc.yaml

Copy and paste the below boilerplate yaml to the new file:

apiVersion:
kind:
metadata:
  name:
spec:
  storageClassName:
  accessModes:
    -
  resources:
    requests:
      storage:

Next we fill in the values:

  • The apiVersion should be v1
  • The kind is PersistentVolumeClaim
  • The metadata.name should be postgres-pvc
  • From the previous section, we know that we have one or two StorageClass available, so we should choose one of them. "gp3" is faster and cheaper than "gp2" in AWS, so let's go with that by setting spec.storageClassName to "gp3" (with quotes)
  • The spec.accessModes list should contain one item with the value ReadWriteOnce
  • the spec.resources.requests.storage is the size of the volume in Gibibytes (Gi), set it to 5Gi
The finished manifest should look like this 
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: postgres-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: "gp3"
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi

Apply your new PersistentVolumeClaim with kubectl apply:

kubectl apply -f persistent-storage/start/postgres-pvc.yaml

Expected output:

persistentvolumeclaim/postgres-pvc created

Check that the PersistentVolumeClaim was created using kubectl get:

kubectl get persistentvolumeclaim

Expected output:

NAME           STATUS    VOLUME   CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
postgres-pvc   Pending                                      gp3            3m19s

Check if a PersistentVolume was created using kubectl get:

kubectl get persistentvolume

Expected output

No resources found

:bulb: PersistentVolumes objects are cluster-wide, ie, "not-namespaced", so you might see PersistentVolumes belonging to other users.

We expect that a PersistentVolume has not been created yet.

As we can see in the kubectl get persistentvolumeclaim output above, our PersistentVolumeClaim is in the Pending status.

This is because the VOLUMEBINDINGMODE of the StorageClass is set to WaitForFirstConsumer, as we saw in the previous section.

WaitForFirstConsumer will not create the actual volume object until it is used by a pod.

:bulb: The reason you might not want to always create volumes as soon as pvc objects are created is to reduce costs, by not creating resources that are not used before they are attached to a pod.

Let's attach the PersistentVolumeClaim to our postgres pod!

Consume the PersistentVolume using a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) and mount the volume to a pod

Open the postgres deployment manifest in your text editor persistent-storage/start/postgres-deployment.yaml.

In the spec.template.spec add the following section:

    ...
    spec:
      volumes:
        - name:
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName:
      ...

Add the values to the snippet:

  • spec.template.spec.volumes[0].name is the name we will reference when we mount the volume to a container in a moment. Set it to postgres-pvc.
  • spec.template.spec.volumes[0].persistentVolumeClaim.claimName is the name of the PersistentVolumeClaim we have created above, set it to the name you used, e.g., postgres-pvc.

:bulb: In this case, the volume name and reference to the pvc name are the same; this is coincidental, and they can be different.

How the finished manifest should look 
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  ...
spec:
  ...
  template:
    metadata:
      ...
    spec:
      volumes:
        - name: postgres-pvc # name we can reference below in container
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: postgres-pvc # name of the actual pvc
      containers:
      ...

Next, we mount the volume we have defined to the postgres container:

In the deployment manifest file, add the following section to the postgres container spec, e.g., spec.template.spec.containers[0].volumeMounts

volumeMounts:
  - name:
    mountPath:
    subPath:

Fill in the values:

  • name should be the name we specified above when we declared the available volumes. In this case, this should be postgres-pvc
  • mountPath is the path in the container to mount the volume to. For postgres, the database state is stored to the path /var/lib/postgresql/data
  • subPath should be postgres, and specifies a directory to be created within the volume. We need this because of a quirk with combining AWS EBS with Postgres. (If you are curious why: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51174380)
The finished manifest should look like this 
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  ...
spec:
  ...
  template:
    metadata:
      ...
    spec:
      volumes:
        - name: postgres-pvc # name we can reference below in container
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: postgres-pvc # name of the actual PVC
      containers:
        - image: docker.io/library/postgres:14.3
          name: postgres
          ...
          env:
            ...
          volumeMounts:
            - name: postgres-pvc
              mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data
              subPath: postgres

Apply the changes to the PostgreSQL deployment using kubectl apply:

kubectl apply -f persistent-storage/start/postgres-deployment

Expected output:

deployment.apps/postgres configured

Observe that the PersistentVolume is now created:

kubectl get persistentvolumeclaims,persistentvolumes

Expected output:

NAME                                 STATUS   VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   VOLUMEATTRIBUTESCLASS   AGE
persistentvolumeclaim/postgres-pvc   Bound    pvc-60e5235b-e2bb-4d71-9136-3901ca4dece9   5Gi        RWO            gp3            <unset>                 3m55s

NAME                                                        CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   RECLAIM POLICY   STATUS   CLAIM                                                STORAGECLASS   VOLUMEATTRIBUTESCLASS   REASON   AGE
persistentvolume/pvc-00e46d16-c3a8-4b4c-8ccd-aaef24970f01   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-7    gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-016b6e52-0dd5-4285-be5e-684128d0d2a1   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-56   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-02a003e1-2e97-410c-9499-ffe1ae982713   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-60   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-02d94c4e-556e-4f18-b3cf-dce6aa866016   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-59   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-045d9e12-3666-4666-9c47-011066cf4ab7   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-39   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-0aa311ea-7ec6-466b-ad6f-e78ac4bdca48   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-73   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-11f71f9c-a63f-4af7-a0ca-b970f0e119c0   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-45   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-1251ec6e-bd77-44b7-b718-98a1f2f1451c   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-64   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-1543a4ec-2565-43e9-b343-8d4c48468475   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-11   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-15683509-945a-42a3-a37b-7a5a6e967439   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-65   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-15a06ade-2da8-421a-99d3-2069e2b6c196   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-76   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-16c167ad-1933-4bdf-a93f-ec4f18267d90   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-42   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-1a19f657-9057-4e7a-ad79-12a02d374f82   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-17   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-1e302766-f772-44fa-85e6-b920c436897a   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-0    gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-1e697605-f0aa-42ee-b30e-d53dfd6caa2b   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-20   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-1fff9f26-6be9-4c17-accf-88a00207cbcd   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-34   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-22470c21-2fca-42c4-9e1c-a06be4ddf7ad   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-53   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-24ea8c05-8bdb-485b-8541-3eb67d2de012   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-4    gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-2a99943d-b33a-4e70-bedf-c76a4470dde1   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-84   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-2cb0beda-b70a-4801-b1b2-2cb05d851837   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-62   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-2ee41664-c2f7-46ac-a509-23dd905fb548   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-24   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-3068b592-6f5c-40af-8f66-2f954e591bcf   5Gi        RWO            Delete           Bound    student-76/postgres-pvc                              gp3            <unset>                          5m53s
persistentvolume/pvc-33c97802-67b5-483b-a8e8-d80884ec1196   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-29   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-3535a091-be7f-449b-8989-d148b70852d7   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-67   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-3792c72a-695a-4d68-9027-180963099f30   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-46   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-39ffeb2e-e62f-4dbe-8e2f-62a508467ed8   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-48   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-3b89ae32-81b0-44eb-bc21-bd836f573bf3   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-63   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-3ceef6f6-e4cc-4d5a-b03d-47b2bba6790f   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-55   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-3d8a2aad-22f2-4695-a386-90319679bc01   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-70   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-3f19b19a-19f3-4bcd-be6f-4e91d7259ee9   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-2    gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-41c1411b-f01f-4f6e-872b-3cf15243b59e   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-41   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-42be04f9-d366-4422-8362-10b94e8a637a   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-21   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-4ef28400-5fe4-414f-bde4-4ad7bf85f67f   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-68   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-503543a6-2605-4774-852a-b5a113cc53f5   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-15   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-50391d8c-aecb-4846-bfa3-d7fef0d3b2fd   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-52   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-574f3e6a-d7fd-4aad-a883-060b3a96d020   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-50   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-5a245381-a2bc-4eb5-ba57-2da4c3b369c8   5Gi        RWO            Delete           Bound    default/postgres-pvc                                 gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-5b78be48-effc-43a7-b97d-315647117934   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-25   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-5cfac69b-2987-41e9-a31d-64977c114be6   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-23   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-60a6bab6-d141-46c5-a5d9-ce4180cb0a67   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-57   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-60e5235b-e2bb-4d71-9136-3901ca4dece9   5Gi        RWO            Delete           Bound    student-19/postgres-pvc                              gp3            <unset>                          14s
persistentvolume/pvc-626158a5-6acc-41f3-a2f4-7d613dd426dd   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-79   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-6499594c-af86-4b63-bc01-5f5c886db94b   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-78   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-66056829-2e5d-49eb-be99-119ee33aa3cd   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-27   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-68780327-7dff-473b-91db-0da48068cc97   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-51   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-69cbb582-0cfc-4032-ac2c-2a762f0541eb   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-82   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-69ff0d85-7707-4707-93cd-25282c7b51aa   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-6    gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-6d3194e3-43ff-4cc4-9768-37eee336e0ca   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-83   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-70a366a2-8e74-42ba-bf65-60c329426df5   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-32   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-70bd719a-5568-40cd-8887-6ca16a1cd033   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-22   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-70e1d13b-652d-4d00-aa61-f25ed9ec5c6c   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-10   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-790e4b48-75ab-4134-b5a0-215777ab5535   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-61   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-7b82b1c3-d2d6-4ffd-81f2-13083748db22   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-12   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-7fb97a98-ed1c-4f31-9b3f-6f8da86935c7   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-26   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-843bef94-9aa5-42ee-a1be-8719ae3cec3b   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-69   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-86454318-e4dd-4d89-bdfe-edc40a61f45d   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-81   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-86ddae43-4633-486d-8820-fd49a96d22fc   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-31   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-8851181b-bfb5-4543-8068-70f86b3add26   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-8    gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-8b28aff0-a45b-404e-9184-d8589816eb09   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-9    gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-8ee4147a-8fdf-4829-a82d-c9a645a89474   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-3    gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-90832763-265b-4cd0-b59b-55aec86c71ef   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-35   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-923fdb6b-327c-4095-9396-b5b7bec34892   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-18   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-924a9572-6257-406b-ba40-37b952128cbb   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-71   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-93047b15-80e2-4dc1-8764-3c6ce9eea314   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-72   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-9451c373-d40a-4556-83d7-7172071580f7   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-36   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-9454a68d-153a-4d80-a170-0bb45d61dce6   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-44   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-94ede42f-75cc-45d6-9f84-63b5f9c4978e   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-54   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-9b24acf2-80c1-4b05-add5-753d268513ab   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-1    gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-9cf3f0c5-935b-4a9a-bd60-7eacdfeb186a   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-16   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-a5f6d728-026d-48f9-b7ef-c7e49eea3199   5Gi        RWO            Delete           Bound    student-44/postgres-pvc                              gp3            <unset>                          9s
persistentvolume/pvc-aa995fa4-7c0b-4bd4-bf67-7745f739b6b4   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-47   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-abf09c27-03e0-4b6a-8454-48e435f71f6e   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-19   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-af5efa42-db08-416d-af61-e92354570d52   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-43   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-b0cee09a-bfa3-4a29-98f6-3471b926de65   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-14   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-baa0a4bf-8057-4490-8015-cd162356f931   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-37   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-be655c26-365e-47e5-9cf6-73feace5731b   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-58   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-c206e055-8fd9-47b2-bcbf-a5781e5d4b12   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-38   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-c242d1d4-3448-4b26-8f15-972215653f21   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-13   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-d46e9612-5eb2-4851-a4e6-c075e216172e   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-5    gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-d7fe5335-fb15-4e76-af5d-73cc44149a34   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-77   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-d9eae565-f372-47ed-8df4-d4e493e0d9d6   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-74   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-dd509e0c-208a-44b1-b0bd-a950fa3f05fa   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-75   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-dfe846e0-2a66-4680-8884-f12e93a8097f   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-28   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-e30a23fe-55de-4d8e-9f88-a2ae0c983db8   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-40   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-e30cbac1-00e3-4d2a-a4c8-d7bf67069592   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-66   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-e37b322a-1a60-48ce-ab7c-f110989801e7   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-30   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-e3d0e01b-09c4-4ebf-b150-e2ef72ec7d46   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-49   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-e85c0f94-e1d3-4234-9eb8-19541fa9d38f   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-33   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-f2ad2087-120d-417b-aa53-26b0fe41d416   5Gi        RWO            Delete           Bound    student-0/postgres-pvc                               gp3            <unset>                          6h17m
persistentvolume/pvc-fa0dca95-bf4a-437b-9112-ad6b5ec7dacd   25Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound    code-server-workstations/coder-home-workstation-80   gp3            <unset>                          8d
persistentvolume/pvc-fc17f2e1-c7bc-4a43-8e3d-956dbedb0e97   8Gi        RWO            Delete           Bound    monitoring/prometheus-server                         gp3            <unset>                          8d

Delete pod with volume attached and observe that state is persisted when a new pod is created

Now that the state of our PostgreSQL database is persisted to the volume, let's verify:

  • Open the frontend webpage and add some quotes
  • Retrieve quotes from the database, and observe that your quotes are among them
  • Delete the database pod with kubectl delete pod <postgres-pod-name>
  • Wait for the postgres pod to be recreated (you can watch for pod changes with kubectl get pods --watch)
  • In the frontend webpage, retrieve quotes and observe that your quotes are among them

Clean up

Delete all resources created using kubectl delete -f <manifest-files>

kubectl delete -f persistent-storage/start