Persistent volumes walkthrough

In this section, we will understand the Kubernetes storage conceptual model and see how to map persistent storage into containers so they can read and write. Let's start by understanding the problem of storage. Containers and pods are ephemeral.

Anything a container writes to its own filesystem gets wiped out when the container dies. Containers can also mount directories from their host node and read or write to them. These will survive container restarts, but the nodes themselves are not immortal. Also, if the pod itself is rescheduled to a different node, the container will not have access to the old node host's filesystem.

There are other problems, such as ownership for mounted hosted directories when the container dies. Just imagine a bunch of containers writing important data to various data directories on their host and then going away, leaving all that data all over the nodes with no direct way to tell what container wrote...