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Managing Container Storage with Kubernetes Volumes

Kubernetes volumes offer a simple way to mount external storage to containers. This lab will test your knowledge of volumes as you provide storage to some containers according to a provided specification. This will allow you to practice what you know about using Kubernetes volumes.

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Sep 20, 2025
Duration
30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Create a Pod That Outputs Data to the Host Using a Volume

    One of the applications under development will be a maintenance script that needs to write data to the host's file system.

    Create a Pod that outputs some data every five seconds to the host's disk in the directory /var/data.

  2. Challenge

    Create a Multi-Container Pod That Shares Data between Containers Using a Volume

    Another application component includes two pieces of software that need to collaborate using shared data.

    Create a multi-container Pod with a volume mounted to both containers.

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