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Minikube: Deploying Persistent Storage

In this hands-on lab we will be creating a deployment using dynamically allocated storage. This will be for a blog platform, and we'll be using a template to create the deployment.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 31, 2025
Duration
30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Start the Minikube Cluster Using the Correct Driver

    Issue the command to start Minikube:

    sudo minikube start --vm-driver none
    
  2. Challenge

    Create the Ghost Blog Deployment and Verify That It Has Deployed Correctly

    Create the blog deployment using the ~/ghost-deploy-template.yaml. Our YAML should look something like this when we're done:

    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Service
    metadata:
        name: blog
        labels:
          app: gblog
    spec:
        type: NodePort
        selector:
          app: gblog
        ports:
            - nodePort: 30005
              port: 80
              targetPort: 2368
    ---
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
    metadata:
      name: blog-stor
      labels:
        app: gblog
    spec:
      accessModes:
        - ReadWriteOnce
      resources:
        requests:
          storage: 3Gi
    ---
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    metadata:
      name: gblog
      labels:
        app: gblog
    spec:
      selector:
        matchLabels:
          app: gblog
      strategy:
        type: Recreate
      template:
        metadata:
          labels:
            app: gblog
        spec:
          containers:
              - name: blog-cont
                image: ghost:2.6-alpine
                ports:
                - containerPort: 2368
                volumeMounts:
                - name: blog-vol
                  mountPath: "/var/lib/ghost/content"
          volumes:
          - name: blog-vol
            persistentVolumeClaim:
              claimName: blog-stor
    

    Now we can create the deployment:

    sudo kubectl create -f ~/ghost-deploy-template.yaml
    

    Verify that it is up and running:

    sudo kubectl get pv
    sudo kubectl get pvc
    sudo kubectl get po
    
  3. Challenge

    Configure the Proxy to Forward the Blog and Verify It Loads

    Get the node port address, which will be the TARGET_PORT of blog in the output of this command:

    sudo minikube service list
    

    Now we can configure Nginx to proxy to the blog service. Edit the file:

    sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
    

    Around line 50, we need to stick our Minikub IP and port in the location section remove this line

     try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    

    and replace it with the ip and port from the services command so it looks like this

    location / {
            # First attempt to serve request as file, then
            # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
            proxy_pass http://MINIKUB_IP:PORT;
        }
    

    Now let's restart Nginx to implement the new configuration:

    sudo systemctl restart nginx
    
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