Volumes

A persistent directory accessible by containers.

Volumes in Kubernetes should (theoretically) always be available to a pod, even if when it crashes, moves, or restarts.

types

Kubernetes supports many types of volumes, including:

an empty directory a path located on the host machine a Google Cloud Persistent Disk (whatever that is) an AWS Elastic Blockstore an NFS share an iSCSI block a CephFS instance a Git repository a secret ... and more!