Prerequisites:

  • The virtual-kubelet node is deployed in the target Kubernetes cluster. Note that a serverless Kubernetes cluster is embedded with the virtual-kubelet node.

Elastic Container Instance (ECI) allows you to use FlexVolume to mount an existing disk in the Available state or a new disk that is created based on the specified specifications.

The following sample code shows how to mount an existing disk in the Available state. Save the following sample code in a YAML file named flexvolume_disk1.yaml: 
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: test-flexvolume-disk1
spec:
  # You can set the nodeName parameter to schedule a pod in a Container Service for Kubernetes cluster to ECI.
  # nodeName: virtual-node-eci-0
  containers:
  - image: nginx:latest
    name: test-container
    volumeMounts:
    - mountPath: /cache-test
      name: cache-volume
  volumes:
  - name: cache-volume
    flexVolume:
      driver: alicloud/disk
      fsType: ext4
      options:
        volumeId: "d-2zehdahrwoa7srga8eqw"
        performanceLevel: "PL2"

Use the kubectl client to create an ECI based on the preceding configuration file.

# kubectl create -f flexvolume_disk1.yaml
pod/test-flexvolume-disk1 created
# kubectl get pod test-flexvolume-disk1
NAME                   READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
test-flexvolume-disk1   1/1     Running   0          45s
# kubectl exec -it test-flexvolume-disk1 bash
root@default-test-flexvolume-disk1:/# ls
bin  boot  cache-test  dev  etc  home  lib  lib64  media  mnt  opt  proc  root  run  sbin  srv  sys  tmp  usr  var
root@default-test-flexvolume-disk1:/# ls cache-test/
lost+found
The following code shows how to mount a new disk that is created based on the specified specifications. Save the following sample code in a YAML file named flexvolume_disk2.yaml: 
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: test-flexvolume-disk2
spec:
  # You can set the nodeName parameter to schedule a pod in a Container Service for Kubernetes cluster to ECI.
  # nodeName: virtual-node-eci-0
  containers:
  - image: nginx:latest
    name: test-container
    volumeMounts:
    - mountPath: /cache-test
      name: cache-volume
  volumes:
  - name: cache-volume
    flexVolume:
      driver: alicloud/disk
      fsType: ext4
      options:
          volumeType: "alicloud-disk-essd"
          volumeSize: "100Gi"
          performanceLevel: "PL2"

Use the kubectl client to create an ECI based on the preceding configuration file.

# kubectl create -f flexvolume_disk2.yaml
pod/test-flexvolume-disk2 created
# kubectl get pod test-flexvolume-disk2
NAME                   READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
test-flexvolume-disk2   1/1     Running   0          45s
# kubectl exec -it test-flexvolume-disk2 bash
root@default-test-flexvolume-disk2:/# ls
bin  boot  cache-test  dev  etc  home  lib  lib64  media  mnt  opt  proc  root  run  sbin  srv  sys  tmp  usr  var
root@default-test-flexvolume-disk2:/# ls cache-test/
lost+found