Tag: efs

I’ve been building a system recently on AWS EKS and using EFS filesystems as volumes for persistent storage.

I initially only had one container that required any storage, but as I added a second I ran into the issue that there didn’t look to be a way to bind a EFS volume to a specific PersistentVolumeClaim so no way to make sure the same volume was mounted into the same container each time.

A Pod requests a volume by referencing a PersistentVolumeClaim as follows:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: efs-app
spec:
  containers:
  - name: app
    image: centos
    command: ["/bin/sh"]
    volumeMounts:
    - name: efs-volume
      mountPath: /data
  volumes:
  - name: efs-volume
    persistentVolumeClaim:
      claimName: efs-claim

The PersistentVolumeClaim would look:

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: efs-claim
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  storageClassName: efs-sc
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi

You can bind the EFS volume to a PersistentVolume as follows

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: efs-persistent-volume
spec:
  capacity:
    storage: 5Gi
  volumeMode: Filesystem
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteMany
  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
  storageClassName: efs-sc
  csi:
    driver: efs.csi.aws.com
    volumeHandle: fs-6eb2fc16

The volumeHandle points to the EFS volume you want to back it.

If there is only one PersistentVolume then there is not a problem as the PersistentVolumeClaim will grab the only one available. But if there are more than one then you can include the volumeName in the PersistentVolumeClaim description to bind the two together.

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: efs-claim
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  storageClassName: efs-sc
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi
  volumeName: efs-persistent-volume

After a bit of poking around I found this Stack Overflow question which pointed me in the right direction.