• Persistent Volume (PV)
• Persistent Volume Clain (PVC)
• Architecture
• Prerequisites

Here, I am covering concepts of persistent volume (PV) & persistent volume claim (PVC). In the previous blog I have covered how to deploy PHPMyAdmin application in kubernetes. PHPMyAdmin application does not have a persistent storage. Hence If MySQL pod die due to some unexpected error for e.g. resource crunch then data stored in database will also get deleted as data by default stored in pod. Pods by default are stateless in nature. Hence to persist MySQL data PV & PVC is required.

Persistent Volume (PV)

Storage provisioned by administrator. Learn more here

Persistent Volume Clain (PVC)

Request for a storage by user. Learn more here

Architecture

Prerequisites

• Deploy PHPMyAdmin Application Follow Deploy phpMyAdmin application on kubernetes blog.

• Go to session_2 directory

  cd ../session_2/
  

Step 1: Create NFS share

Reference:

• https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/nfs-share
• https://vitux.com/install-nfs-server-and-client-on-ubuntu/

I have created NFS mount at /mnt/share location on VM with IP 192.168.1.6

Step 2: Create Persistent Volume (PV)

kubectl create -f db-pv.yaml

Step 3: Create Persistent Volume Claim (PVC)

kubectl create -f db-pvc.yaml

Step 4: List PV & PVC

kubectl get pvc

kubectl get pv

Step 5: Redeploy MySQL deployment

kubectl delete deployment db

kubectl create -f db-deployment.yaml

Here db-deployment.yaml is updated YAML with volume & volume mounts. Next watch pods.

kubectl get pods -n watch

Exit once db pod goes into running state.

Step 6: Go to mount directory and list files

cd /mnt/share

ls -ltr

Step 7: Browse PHPMyAdmin application and create database

Step 8: Delete pod

kubectl delete pod <MYSQL_DB_POD_NAME>

Step 9: Browse PHPMyAdmin application and verify database still exist