CKAD Exam Practice Exercise : State Persistence

State Persistence (8%)

Practice questions based on these concepts

• Understand PersistentVolumeClaims for Storage

Questions

List Persistent Volumes in the cluster

kubectl get pv

Create a hostPath PersistentVolume named task-pv-volume with storage 10Gi, access modes ReadWriteOnce, storageClassName manual, and volume at /mnt/data and verify

// task-pv-volume.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: task-pv-volume
  labels:
    type: local
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  capacity:
    storage: 10Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: "/mnt/data"

kubectl create -f task-pv-volume.yaml

kubectl get pv

Create a PersistentVolumeClaim of at least 3Gi storage and access mode ReadWriteOnce and verify status is Bound

// task-pv-claim.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: task-pv-claim
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 3Gi

kubectl create -f task-pv-claim.yaml

kubectl get pvc

Delete persistent volume and PersistentVolumeClaim we just created

kubectl delete pvc task-pv-claim
kubectl delete pv task-pv-volume

Create a Pod with an image Redis and configure a volume that lasts for the lifetime of the Pod

// emptyDir is the volume that lasts for the life of the pod

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: redis
spec:
  containers:
  - name: redis
    image: redis
    volumeMounts:
    - name: redis-storage
      mountPath: /data/redis
  volumes:
  - name: redis-storage
    emptyDir: {}

kubectl create -f redis-storage.yaml

Exec into the above pod and create a file named file.txt with the text ‘This is called the file’ in the path /data/redis and open another tab and exec again with the same pod and verifies file exist in the same path.

// first terminal
kubectl exec -it redis-storage /bin/sh
cd /data/redis
echo 'This is called the file' > file.txt

//open another tab
kubectl exec -it redis-storage /bin/sh
cat /data/redis/file.txt

Delete the above pod and create again from the same yaml file and verifies there is no file.txt in the path /data/redis.

kubectl delete pod redis

kubectl create -f redis-storage.yaml
kubectl exec -it redis-storage /bin/sh
cat /data/redis/file.txt // file doesn't exist

Create PersistentVolume named task-pv-volume with storage 10Gi, access modes ReadWriteOnce, storageClassName manual, and volume at /mnt/data and Create a PersistentVolumeClaim of at least 3Gi storage and access mode ReadWriteOnce and verify status is Bound

kubectl create -f task-pv-volume.yaml
kubectl create -f task-pv-claim.yaml

kubectl get pv
kubectl get pvc

Create an nginx pod with containerPort 80 and with a PersistentVolumeClaim task-pv-claim and has a mouth path "/usr/share/nginx/html"

// task-pv-pod.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: task-pv-pod
spec:
  volumes:
    - name: task-pv-storage
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: task-pv-claim
  containers:
    - name: task-pv-container
      image: nginx
      ports:
        - containerPort: 80
          name: "http-server"
      volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: "/usr/share/nginx/html"
          name: task-pv-storage

kubectl create -f task-pv-pod.yaml