Question
How to provision Kubernetes Persistent Volumes to use with S3 or DO spaces
- Posted on January 10, 2021
- KubernetesDigitalOcean SpacesStorageObject Storage
Asked by user8981984910
Hi,
I’m a beginner on k8s and I’ve been struggling for a long time trying to do Kubernetes storage the right way. I’ve learnt that stateless applications offers great performances and database shouldn’t be inside pods for performance/availability reasons.
So is there a way to use a S3-compatible API (like DO spaces) as a storage backend ? Ideally, I’d like to migrate my databases out of k8s in a managed SQL cluster, and use object storage for my newly created PVs. I could just use S3 directly in my applications, but this is sometimes not compatible with the design of the app (e.g: Nextcloud).
Thanks,
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If I’m understanding your question, I think all you need to do is provide your application with configuration parameters to connect to whatever storage you need.
For example, in most of my applications, I’ll create a kubernetes secret that has my database name/address/password/etc., and then I’ll provide that data to my stateless pod as an environment variable. The application can then read the environment variable and connect to the database.
Does this answer your question?