What You Need to Know Before Using Local Persistent Volumes

Explore the intricacies of using local persistent volumes in Kubernetes with this informative conference talk. Delve into the challenges of managing persistent data for stateful workloads and distributed databases on Kubernetes. Learn about the differences between local and network-attached volumes, various provisioning methods, and potential operational issues. Discover how to handle storage-aware scheduling problems, host failures, and upgrades. Gain insights into why Pods may remain in a Pending state and understand the complexities of concurrent pod scheduling and storage capacity management. This presentation provides essential knowledge for effectively implementing and managing local persistent volumes in Kubernetes environments.

Intro
What are persistent volumes
Local vs Network attached volumes
How to provision local volumes
How to deal with operations
Problems with kubernetes
Problems with stateful sets
Concurrent pod scheduling
Storage capacity