How to access ephemeral block storage in Kubernates jobs

Hi there @d825171ca273f05,

What I would do in this case is to also use a block storage and a PVC. That way you could attach the storage to a specific deployment and use it as a volume just like you would with a standard Droplet.

So rather than a StatefulSet you could use a standard Kubernetes deployment, for example:

• First create the PVC:

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: your-pvc
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 1Gi
  storageClassName: do-block-storage

• Then attach the volume to your pods:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: your_app
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: your_app
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: your_app
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: your_app
        image: your_image:latest
        securityContext:
          privileged: true
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: "/var/lib/your_path"
          name: do-block-storage
      volumes:
        - name: do-block-storage
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: your-pvc

Here is a similar discussion here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-use-digital-ocean-volumes-as-persistent-storage-for-the-pod-to-share-the-storage-across-multiple-pods

The main thing that you need to keep in mind is that the volume can be attached as ReadWriteOnce meaning that it would only be available on one node. So in case that you need to use multiple pods, they all need to be scheduled on the same node.

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby