It seems that Storage classes uses the provisioner to create a new volume. How about reusing an existing one? I don’t see any way to specify a Volume-ID for the AWS provisioner.
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Hi Christian.
I’m 99% sure you cannot do this with a Storage Class. The kubernetes.io/aws-ebs provisioner does not have a field that lets you specify an exiting volume – obviously the whole idea of them is creating volume dynamically. I’m also not aware of the PVC object having a way to do this. It basically calls on a Storage Class (provisioner) and can set things like access mode and capacity, but not a specific volume.
HTH. Nigel
Yes, I can see that. I wonder if this can be turned into a PersistantVolume, so you can make a pvc on it?
Yeah, I reckon it’s doable on AWS. I’ve posted another ANSWER as comments to this thread lose all formatting. HTH.
Hi Christian. Howe about trying this.
Configure your Storage Classes etc as normal. But for this requirement that needs a specific volume, manually create a PersistentVolume (PV) and then a claim on it (PVC). The PV definition below should give you a starting place and you can put in your own values as required…
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: pv1
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
capacity:
storage: 20Gi
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
awsElasticBlockStore:
volumeID: <your-id-in-here> # This is the `vol-...` bit shown in the AWS consoleI’ve not tested it, but something you might be able to test yourself and report back…
Hi Nigel. Thanks for this great course. I’m enjoying it very much. So how would you go about using an existing EBS volume in a Kubernetes cluster? In my case, I’m migrating from a Docker Swarm cluster to k8s. But I have several volumes of data, I want to carry over.