Learn Kubernetes External Storage Provisioner by Looking at How Local Path Provisioner Works
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7 min readJan 6, 2020
For the past month, I’ve been researching for bare metal k8s distribution to use at our company. I’ve been using Rancher’s k3s, lightweight Kubernetes distribution, and I find it very light and convenient to setup. Together with a bunch of built-in tools bundled with k3s, I like its super cool storage provisioner the most. Thank you, Rancher, you guys rocks.
What we’ll learn here
- What it takes to provision a PV in Kubernetes dynamically
- What is Rancher’s Local Path Provisioner
- How to use Rancher’s Local Path Provisioner
- How dynamic storage external-provisioner works
Frankly speaking, I find it a bit hard for commoners like me to get more information about this kind of stuff unless I work on the Kubernetes project itself or storage-related system company. Otherwise, I have to make extra effort to examine Open-Source projects like this by myself. I am sharing this to help people like me to…
