From the course: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Cert Prep

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 25,300 courses taught by industry experts.

StorageClass

StorageClass - Kubernetes Tutorial

From the course: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Cert Prep

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

StorageClass

“

- We already talked about StorageClass name a little bit. I want to tell you a bit more about StorageClass. StorageClass works with a storage provisioner to create persistent volumes on demand. So if you are going to launch applications in your public cloud, public clouds come with a storage provisioner. Kubernetes has a storage class that communicates to it, and you'll automatically get your storage, and that's convenient. Now, if you want to use this for yourself, you should know that storage provisioners are not a part of vanilla Kubernetes. They are provided by the ecosystem, and they may be integrated in a Kubernetes distribution. But if you don't do anything, then it is likely that you don't have a storage provisioner, and you cannot use StorageClass, because StorageClass is one of these Kubernetes resources that needs a running application behind it. So the storage provisioner is an application that runs in Kubernetes to communicate with site specific storage to create the…

Contents