Use a statically provisioned disk volume

Limits

• Alibaba Cloud disks cannot be shared. A disk can be mounted only to one pod.
• A disk can be mounted only to a node that is deployed in the same zone as the disk.

Mount a statically provisioned disk volume in the ACK console

Step 1: Create a PV

1. Log on to the ACK console.
2. In the left-side navigation pane of the ACK console, click Clusters.
3. On the Clusters page, find the cluster that you want to manage and click the name of the cluster or click Details in the Actions column. The details page of the cluster appears.
4. In the left-side navigation pane of the details page, choose Volumes > Persistent Volumes.
5. In the upper-right corner of the Persistent Volumes page, click Create.
6. In the Create PV dialog box, set the parameters.

   Parameter	Description
   PV Type	You can select Cloud Disk, NAS, or OSS. In this example, Cloud Disk is selected.
   Volume Plug-in	You can select FlexVolume or CSI. In this example, CSI is selected.
   Access Mode	By default, this parameter is set to ReadWriteOnce.
   Disk ID	Select a mountable disk that is deployed in the same region and zone as your cluster.
   File System Type	Select the file system of the disk. Valid values: ext4, ext3, xfs, and vfat. Default value: ext4.
   Label	Add labels to the PV.

7. Click Create.

Step 2: Create a PVC

1. In the left-side navigation pane of the details page, choose Volumes > Persistent Volume Claims.
2. In the upper-right corner of the Persistent Volume Claims page, click Create.
3. In the Create PVC dialog box, set the following parameters:

   Parameter	Description
   PVC Type	You can select Cloud Disk, NAS, or OSS. In this example, Cloud Disk is selected.
   Name	The name of the PVC. The name must be unique in the namespace.
   Allocation Mode	In this example, Existing Volumes is selected. Note If no PV is created, you can set Allocation Mode to Create Volume, and set other parameters to create a PV. For more information, see Create a PV.
   Existing Volumes	Click Select PV. In the dialog box that appears, find the PV that you want to use and click Select in the Actions column.
   Capacity	The capacity of the PV that you created. Note The capacity of a PV cannot be greater than the capacity of the disk that is associated with the PV.
   Access Mode	By default, this parameter is set to ReadWriteOnce.

4. Click Create.
   After the PVC is created, you can view the PVC in the list of PVCs. The PVC is bound to the specified PV.

Step 3: Create an application

1. In the left-side navigation pane of the details page, choose Workloads > StatefulSets.
2. In the upper-right corner of the StatefulSets page, click Create from Image.
3. Set the application parameters.
   This example shows how to set the volume parameters. For more information about other parameters, see Use a StatefulSet to create a stateful application.

   You can configure local storage volumes and cloud storage volumes for an ACK cluster. In this example, Cloud Storage is selected.

   Mount the disk volume that is created in this example to the /tmp path of the container. After the disk volume is mounted, the container data that is generated in the /tmp path is stored in the disk volume.
4. Set other parameters and click Create.
   After the application is created, you can use the disk volume to store application data.

Mount a statically provisioned disk volume by using kubectl

Step 1: Create a PV

1. Use the following template to create a pv-static.yaml file:

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: PersistentVolume
   metadata:
     name: csi-pv
     labels:
       alicloud-pvname: static-disk-pv
   spec:
     capacity:
       storage: 25Gi
     accessModes:
       - ReadWriteOnce
     persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
     csi:
       driver: diskplugin.csi.alibabacloud.com
       volumeHandle: "<your-disk-id>"
     nodeAffinity:
       required:
         nodeSelectorTerms:
         - matchExpressions:
           - key: topology.diskplugin.csi.alibabacloud.com/zone
             operator: In
             values:
             - "<your-node-zone-id>"

   Parameter	Description
   name	The name of the PV
   labels	The labels that you want to add to the PV
   storage	The available storage of the disk
   accessModes	The access mode of the PV
   persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy	The reclaim policy of the PV
   driver	The type of the volume driver that you want to use. This parameter is set to diskplugin.csi.alibabacloud.com. This value indicates that the Alibaba Cloud CSI plug-in is used.
   volumeHandle	The ID of the disk associated with the PV
   nodeAffinity	Information about the zone to which the PV and PVC belong. You can set this parameter to specify the zone to which the pod that uses the PV and PVC is scheduled.

2. Run the following command to create the PV:

   kubectl create -f pv-static.yaml

3. View the PV that you created.
   1. Log on to the ACK console.
   2. In the left-side navigation pane of the ACK console, click Clusters.
   3. On the Clusters page, find the cluster that you want to manage and click the name of the cluster or click Details in the Actions column. The details page of the cluster appears.
   4. In the left-side navigation pane of the cluster details page, choose Volumes > Persistent Volumes.
      On the Persistent Volumes page, verify that the newly created PV is displayed.

Step 2: Create a PVC

1. Use the following template to create a pvc-static.yaml file:

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
   metadata:
     name: csi-pvc
   spec:
     accessModes:
     - ReadWriteOnce
     resources:
       requests:
         storage: 25Gi
     selector:
       matchLabels:
         alicloud-pvname: static-disk-pv

   Parameter	Description
   name	The name of the PVC
   accessModes	The access mode of the PVC
   storage	The capacity claimed by the PVC. The claimed capacity cannot exceed the capacity of the PV that is bound to the PVC.
   matchLabels	The labels that are used to select a PV and bind it to the PVC. The labels must be the same as those of the PV.

2. Run the following command to create the PVC:

   kubectl create -f pvc-static.yaml

3. In the left-side navigation pane of the cluster details page, choose Volumes > Persistent Volume Claims.
   On the Persistent Volume Claims page, verify that the newly created PVC is displayed.

Step 3: Create an application

In this example, a web application is created and mounted with the PVC you created.

1. Use the following template to create a web.yaml file:

   apiVersion: apps/v1
   kind: StatefulSet
   metadata:
     name: web
   spec:
     selector:
       matchLabels:
         app: nginx
     serviceName: "nginx"
     template:
       metadata:
         labels:
           app: nginx
       spec:
         containers:
         - name: nginx
           image: nginx
           ports:
           - containerPort: 80
             name: web
           volumeMounts:
           - name: pvc-disk
             mountPath: /data
         volumes:
           - name: pvc-disk
             persistentVolumeClaim:
               claimName: csi-pvc

   • mountPath: the path where you want to mount the disk in the container.
   • claimName: the name of the PVC that you want to mount to the application.
2. Run the following command to create an application and mount the statically provisioned PV by using the PVC:

   kubectl apply -f web.yaml

3. In the left-side navigation pane of the cluster details page, choose Workloads > StatefulSets.
   On the SratefulSets page, verify that the newly created web application is displayed.

Verify that the statically provisioned disk can be used to persist data

1. View the pods that run the web application and the files in the mounted disk.
   1. Run the following command to query the pods that run the web application:

      kubectl get pod | grep web

      Expected output:

      web-1**** 1/1 Running 0 32s

   2. Run the following command to check whether a new disk is mounted to the /data path:

      kubectl exec web-1**** df | grep data

      Expected output:

      /dev/vdf 20511312 45080 20449848 1% /data

   3. Run the following command to query files in the /data path:

      kubectl exec web-1**** ls /data

      Expected output:

      lost+found

2. Run the following command to create a file named static in the /data path:

   kubectl exec web-1**** touch /data/static

3. Run the following command to query files in the /data path:

    kubectl exec web-1**** ls /data

   Expected output:

   lost+found
   static

4. Run the following command to delete the web-1**** pod:

   kubectl delete pod web-1****

   Expected output:

   pod "web-1****" deleted

5. Verify that the file still exists in the disk after the pod is deleted.
   1. Run the following command to query the pod that is recreated:

      kubectl get pod

      Expected output:

      NAME       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS    AGE 
      web-2****  1/1     Running   0           14s

   2. Run the following command to query files in the /data path:

      kubectl exec web-2**** ls /data

      Expected output:

      lost+found
      static

      The static file still exists in the disk. This indicates that data is persisted to the statically provisioned disk.