odo storage

odo lets users manage storage volumes attached to the components. A storage volume can be either an ephemeral volume using an emptyDir Kubernetes volume, or a PVC, which is a way for users to "claim" a persistent volume (such as a GCE PersistentDisk or an iSCSI volume) without understanding the details of the particular cloud environment. The persistent storage volume can be used to persist data across restarts and rebuilds of the component.

Adding a storage volume

We can add a storage volume to the cluster using odo storage create.

odo storage create

For example:

$ odo storage create store --path /data --size 1Gi
✓  Added storage store to nodejs-project-ufyy

$ odo storage create tempdir --path /tmp --size 2Gi --ephemeral
✓  Added storage tempdir to nodejs-project-ufyy


Please use `odo push` command to make the storage accessible to the component

In the above example, the first storage volume has been mounted to the /data path and has a size of 1Gi, and the second volume has been mounted to /tmp and is ephemeral.

Listing the storage volumes

We can check the storage volumes currently used by the component using odo storage list.

odo storage list

For example:

$ odo storage list
The component 'nodejs-project-ufyy' has the following storage attached:
NAME      SIZE     PATH      STATE
store     1Gi      /data     Not Pushed
tempdir   2Gi      /tmp      Not Pushed

Deleting a storage volume

We can delete a storage volume using odo storage delete.

odo storage delete

For example:

$ odo storage delete store -f
Deleted storage store from nodejs-project-ufyy

Please use `odo push` command to delete the storage from the cluster

In the above example, using -f forcefully deletes the storage without asking user permission.

Adding storage to specific container

If your devfile has multiple containers, you can specify to which container you want the storage to attach to using the --container flag in the odo storage create command.

Following is an excerpt from an example devfile with multiple containers :

components:
  - name: runtime
    container:
      image: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/nodejs-12:1-36
      memoryLimit: 1024Mi
      endpoints:
        - name: "3000-tcp"
          targetPort: 3000
      mountSources: true
  - name: funtime
    container:
      image: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/nodejs-12:1-36
      memoryLimit: 1024Mi

Here, we have two containers - runtime and funtime. To attach a storage, only to the funtime container, we can do

odo storage create --container

$ odo storage create store --path /data --size 1Gi --container funtime
✓  Added storage store to nodejs-testing-xnfg

Please use `odo push` command to make the storage accessible to the component

You can list the same, using odo storage list command

$ odo storage list
The component 'nodejs-testing-xnfg' has the following storage attached:
NAME      SIZE     PATH      CONTAINER     STATE
store     1Gi      /data     funtime       Not Pushed