Chapter 1. Storage overview

Using dynamic provisioning allows you to create storage volumes on-demand, eliminating the need for pre-provisioned storage. MicroShift enables dynamic storage provisioning that is ready for immediate use with the logical volume manager storage (LVMS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) provider.

Pods and containers are ephemeral or transient in nature and designed for stateless applications. Ephemeral storage allows administrators and developers to better manage the local storage for some of their operations.

Persistent storage in MicroShift enables stateful applications to retain data beyond the lifecycle of individual pods. You can use persistent volumes (PVs) to provision storage and persistent volume claims (PVCs) to request storage for your applications.

Using dynamic provisioning allows you to create storage volumes on-demand, eliminating the need for pre-provisioned storage.