I’m fairly new to Rancher but I have some experience from configuring Kubernetes at work.
I’m a little confused on volumes in Rancher. For example, I go to deploy the gitlab-ce chart and it creates four PVCs: data (RWO 10Gi), etc (RWO 1Gi), postgresql (RWO 10Gi), and redis (RWO 10Gi). Aside from the accessMode and the storage, there’s nothing to distinguish them, so how do I ensure that a PVC binds to a particular PV?
At work I would do this by adding labels to the PVs and matchLabels to the PVCs, but these aren’t even visible in the Rancher UI.
I use kubectl to achieve this
here is a pv definition
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: name-of-pv
namespace: XXXX
spec:
storageClassName: “longhorn”
capacity:
storage: 2Gi
volumeMode: Filesystem
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
csi:
driver: io.rancher.longhorn
fsType: ext4
volumeAttributes:
numberOfReplicas: ‘3’
staleReplicaTimeout: ‘30’
volumeHandle: xxxx
you can use any CSI that works for you
and here is the corresponding PVC