PV

Abbreviation · Development

Definitions

  1. PersistentVolume — a Kubernetes storage resource provisioned by an administrator or dynamically by a StorageClass that exists independently of any individual pod's lifecycle. Pods claim storage from PVs via PersistentVolumeClaims (PVCs), allowing data to survive pod restarts and rescheduling.

    In plain English: A chunk of storage in Kubernetes that sticks around even when the application using it restarts or moves.

    Example: "The database pod kept losing data on restart until we bound it to a PV backed by an EBS volume."

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