How to use Digital Ocean Volumes as persistent storage for the pod to share the storage across multiple pods?

Hello,

When you need to write and access persistent data in a Kubernetes cluster, you can create and access DigitalOcean Block Storage Volumes by creating a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) as part of your deployment. I would recommend following the steps from the official DigitalOcean documentation on how to add Block Storage Volumes to a Kubernetes Cluster:

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/kubernetes/how-to/add-volumes/

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby

DigitalOcean does not support parallel read/write modes unfortunately:

See: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/add-volumes/

accessModes must be set to ReadWriteOnce. The other parameters, ReadOnlyMany and ReadWriteMany, are not supported by DigitalOcean volumes. See the Kubernetes documentation for more about …

In theory if all your pods run on the same node, they should be able to read/write together, but then you cannot scale out with multiple nodes. Also, you won’t be able to do a 0-downtime node replacement, since the second node cannot attach until the first one is down.

I am in need for a solution to this problem, but haven’t investigated yet. I suspect the solution to be in setting up a custom network fileserver (like nfs, or gluster) on kubernetes. It seems that kubernetes supports NFS as a volume option as well, so then you don’t need to modify container images to set up the mounting.