Challenges

by  Kaloyan Preslavski

Observe the Delete and Retain reclaim policies in action, recover a Released PV by patching claimRef, and recover data by creating a new PV pointing to the same storage directory.

by  Kaloyan Preslavski

Explore how the DefaultStorageClass admission controller injects storage classes, explicitly name a StorageClass, switch the cluster default, and inspect where local-path stores volumes on the node.

by  Kaloyan Preslavski

Learn the three static PV binding patterns - generic match, label selector, and bidirectional claimRef - then use a no-provisioner StorageClass with WaitForFirstConsumer to pin storage to a specific node.

by  Omkar Shelke

Create a PersistentVolumeClaim backed by a CSI StorageClass and run a storage performance benchmark using FIO inside a Kubernetes Job.

by  Omkar Shelke

A production deployment is stuck in Pending because its PersistentVolumeClaim and StorageClass are missing. Set up NFS-backed storage and watch all pods come alive and write shared data across nodes.

by  Omkar Shelke

Create a PersistentVolume with hostPath, bind it to a PersistentVolumeClaim, and mount it in a Deployment. This demonstrates storage management in Kubernetes.

by  Omkar Shelke

Create a PersistentVolume backed by local storage that can be used only on a specific node, and bind it to a PersistentVolumeClaim using label selectors.