Using Local Path Provisioner

Overview

Local Path Provisioner, provides a way for the Kubernetes users to utilize the local storage in each node. It supports multi-node setups. This tutorial will show you how to setup local-path-prvisioner on two node minikube cluster.

Prerequisites

• Minikube version higher than v1.27.0
• kubectl

Tutorial

• Start a cluster with 2 nodes:

$ minikube start -n 2

• Enable storage-provisioner-rancher addon:

$ minikube addons enable storage-provisioner-rancher

• You should be able to see Pod in the local-path-storage namespace:

$ kubectl get pods -n local-path-storage
NAME                                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
local-path-provisioner-7f58b4649-hcbk9   1/1     Running   0          38s

• The local-path StorageClass should be marked as default:

$ kubectl get sc
NAME                   PROVISIONER                RECLAIMPOLICY   VOLUMEBINDINGMODE      ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION   AGE
local-path (default)   rancher.io/local-path      Delete          WaitForFirstConsumer   false                  107s
standard               k8s.io/minikube-hostpath   Delete          Immediate              false                  4m27s

• The following yaml creates PVC and Pod that creates file with content on second node (minikube-m02):

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: test-pvc
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 64Mi
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: test-local-path
spec:
  restartPolicy: OnFailure
  nodeSelector:
    "kubernetes.io/hostname": "minikube-m02"
  containers:
    - name: busybox
      image: busybox:stable
      command: ["sh", "-c", "echo 'local-path-provisioner' > /test/file1"]
      volumeMounts:
      - name: data
        mountPath: /test
  volumes:
    - name: data
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: test-pvc

$ kubectl get pvc
NAME       STATUS   VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
test-pvc   Bound    pvc-f07e253b-fea7-433a-b0ac-1bcea3f77076   64Mi       RWO            local-path     5m19s

$ kubectl get pods -o wide
NAME              READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE     IP           NODE           NOMINATED NODE   READINESS GATES
test-local-path   0/1     Completed   0          5m19s   10.244.1.5   minikube-m02   <none>           <none>

• On the second node we are able to see created file with content local-path-provisioner:

$ minikube ssh -n minikube-m02 "cat /opt/local-path-provisioner/pvc-f07e253b-fea7-433a-b0ac-1bcea3f77076_default_test-pvc/file1"
local-path-provisioner