I created a physical volume using NFS and PVC for the same volume. However, the PVC always creates a EBS disk storage instead of binding to the PV. Please see the log below:
> kubectl get pv
NAME CAPACITY ACCESSMODES RECLAIMPOLICY STATUS CLAIM STORAGECLASS REASON AGE
mynfspv 100Gi RWX Retain Available 7s
create PVC now
> kubectl get pvc
NAME STATUS VOLUME CAPACITY ACCESSMODES STORAGECLASS AGE
mynfspvc Bound pvc-a081c470-3f23-11e7-9d30-024e42ef6b60 100Gi RWX default 4s
> kubectl get pv
NAME CAPACITY ACCESSMODES RECLAIMPOLICY STATUS CLAIM STORAGECLASS REASON AGE
mynfspv 100Gi RWX Retain Available 50s
pvc-a081c470-3f23-11e7-9d30-024e42ef6b60 100Gi RWX Delete Bound default/mynfspvc default 17s
nfs-pv.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: mynfspv
labels:
name: nfs2
spec:
capacity:
storage: 100Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
nfs:
server: dbc56.efs.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
path: /
nfs-pvc.yaml
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: mynfspvc
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
resources:
requests:
storage: 100Gi
Which version of Kube is this ? The root cause is as mentioned by @ddysher. In your setup the "Default" Storage class is "EBS" as you can see in the get pv{c} outputs. According to kube version you can also make use of 'calim selector' in PVC spec. Refer # https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/volume-selectors.md
It looks like you have dynamic provisioning and default storageclass feature enabled, and the default class is AWS ebs. You can check your default class with following command:
$ kubectl get storageclasses
NAME TYPE
standard (default) kubernetes.io/aws-ebs
If this is correct, then I think you'll need to specify storage class to solve you problem.
kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: nfs-class
provisioner: kubernetes.io/fake-nfs
Add storageClassName
to both of your PV
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: mynfspvc
spec:
storageClassName: nfs-class
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
resources:
requests:
storage: 100Gi
and PVC
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: mynfspv
labels:
name: nfs2
spec:
storageClassName: nfs-class
capacity:
storage: 100Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
nfs:
server: dbc56.efs.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
path: /
You can check out https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/#class-1 for details.