PersistentVolume (PV) is a storage resource provisioned by an administrator. It is analogous to a node. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes

APIVersion defines the versioned schema of this representation of an object. Servers should convert recognized schemas to the latest internal value, and may reject unrecognized values. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#resources

Kind is a string value representing the REST resource this object represents. Servers may infer this from the endpoint the client submits requests to. Cannot be updated. In CamelCase. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#types-kinds

PersistentVolumeSpec is the specification of a persistent volume.

accessModes contains all ways the volume can be mounted. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes#access-modes

Represents a Persistent Disk resource in AWS.

An AWS EBS disk must exist before mounting to a container. The disk must also be in the same AWS zone as the kubelet. An AWS EBS disk can only be mounted as read/write once. AWS EBS volumes support ownership management and SELinux relabeling.

awsElasticBlockStore represents an AWS Disk resource that is attached to a kubelet's host machine and then exposed to the pod. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes#awselasticblockstore

AzureDisk represents an Azure Data Disk mount on the host and bind mount to the pod.

azureDisk represents an Azure Data Disk mount on the host and bind mount to the pod.

AzureFile represents an Azure File Service mount on the host and bind mount to the pod.

azureFile represents an Azure File Service mount on the host and bind mount to the pod.

capacity is the description of the persistent volume's resources and capacity. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes#capacity

Represents a Ceph Filesystem mount that lasts the lifetime of a pod Cephfs volumes do not support ownership management or SELinux relabeling.

cephFS represents a Ceph FS mount on the host that shares a pod's lifetime

Represents a cinder volume resource in Openstack. A Cinder volume must exist before mounting to a container. The volume must also be in the same region as the kubelet. Cinder volumes support ownership management and SELinux relabeling.

cinder represents a cinder volume attached and mounted on kubelets host machine. More info: https://examples.k8s.io/mysql-cinder-pd/README.md

ObjectReference contains enough information to let you inspect or modify the referred object.

claimRef is part of a bi-directional binding between PersistentVolume and PersistentVolumeClaim. Expected to be non-nil when bound. claim.VolumeName is the authoritative bind between PV and PVC. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes#binding

Represents storage that is managed by an external CSI volume driver (Beta feature)

csi represents storage that is handled by an external CSI driver (Beta feature).

Represents a Fibre Channel volume. Fibre Channel volumes can only be mounted as read/write once. Fibre Channel volumes support ownership management and SELinux relabeling.

fc represents a Fibre Channel resource that is attached to a kubelet's host machine and then exposed to the pod.

FlexPersistentVolumeSource represents a generic persistent volume resource that is provisioned/attached using an exec based plugin.

flexVolume represents a generic volume resource that is provisioned/attached using an exec based plugin.

Represents a Flocker volume mounted by the Flocker agent. One and only one of datasetName and datasetUUID should be set. Flocker volumes do not support ownership management or SELinux relabeling.

flocker represents a Flocker volume attached to a kubelet's host machine and exposed to the pod for its usage. This depends on the Flocker control service being running

Represents a Persistent Disk resource in Google Compute Engine.

A GCE PD must exist before mounting to a container. The disk must also be in the same GCE project and zone as the kubelet. A GCE PD can only be mounted as read/write once or read-only many times. GCE PDs support ownership management and SELinux relabeling.

gcePersistentDisk represents a GCE Disk resource that is attached to a kubelet's host machine and then exposed to the pod. Provisioned by an admin. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes#gcepersistentdisk

Represents a Glusterfs mount that lasts the lifetime of a pod. Glusterfs volumes do not support ownership management or SELinux relabeling.

glusterfs represents a Glusterfs volume that is attached to a host and exposed to the pod. Provisioned by an admin. More info: https://examples.k8s.io/volumes/glusterfs/README.md

Represents a host path mapped into a pod. Host path volumes do not support ownership management or SELinux relabeling.

hostPath represents a directory on the host. Provisioned by a developer or tester. This is useful for single-node development and testing only! On-host storage is not supported in any way and WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes#hostpath

ISCSIPersistentVolumeSource represents an ISCSI disk. ISCSI volumes can only be mounted as read/write once. ISCSI volumes support ownership management and SELinux relabeling.

iscsi represents an ISCSI Disk resource that is attached to a kubelet's host machine and then exposed to the pod. Provisioned by an admin.

Local represents directly-attached storage with node affinity (Beta feature)

local represents directly-attached storage with node affinity

mountOptions is the list of mount options, e.g. ["ro", "soft"]. Not validated - mount will simply fail if one is invalid. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/#mount-options

Represents an NFS mount that lasts the lifetime of a pod. NFS volumes do not support ownership management or SELinux relabeling.

nfs represents an NFS mount on the host. Provisioned by an admin. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes#nfs

VolumeNodeAffinity defines constraints that limit what nodes this volume can be accessed from.

nodeAffinity defines constraints that limit what nodes this volume can be accessed from. This field influences the scheduling of pods that use this volume.

persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy defines what happens to a persistent volume when released from its claim. Valid options are Retain (default for manually created PersistentVolumes), Delete (default for dynamically provisioned PersistentVolumes), and Recycle (deprecated). Recycle must be supported by the volume plugin underlying this PersistentVolume. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes#reclaiming



Represents a Photon Controller persistent disk resource.

photonPersistentDisk represents a PhotonController persistent disk attached and mounted on kubelets host machine

PortworxVolumeSource represents a Portworx volume resource.

portworxVolume represents a portworx volume attached and mounted on kubelets host machine

Represents a Quobyte mount that lasts the lifetime of a pod. Quobyte volumes do not support ownership management or SELinux relabeling.

quobyte represents a Quobyte mount on the host that shares a pod's lifetime

Represents a Rados Block Device mount that lasts the lifetime of a pod. RBD volumes support ownership management and SELinux relabeling.

rbd represents a Rados Block Device mount on the host that shares a pod's lifetime. More info: https://examples.k8s.io/volumes/rbd/README.md

ScaleIOPersistentVolumeSource represents a persistent ScaleIO volume

scaleIO represents a ScaleIO persistent volume attached and mounted on Kubernetes nodes.

storageClassName is the name of StorageClass to which this persistent volume belongs. Empty value means that this volume does not belong to any StorageClass.

Represents a StorageOS persistent volume resource.

storageOS represents a StorageOS volume that is attached to the kubelet's host machine and mounted into the pod More info: https://examples.k8s.io/volumes/storageos/README.md

volumeMode defines if a volume is intended to be used with a formatted filesystem or to remain in raw block state. Value of Filesystem is implied when not included in spec.

vsphereVolume represents a vSphere volume attached and mounted on kubelets host machine

spec defines a specification of a persistent volume owned by the cluster. Provisioned by an administrator. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes#persistent-volumes

PersistentVolumeStatus is the current status of a persistent volume.

message is a human-readable message indicating details about why the volume is in this state.

phase indicates if a volume is available, bound to a claim, or released by a claim. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes#phase



reason is a brief CamelCase string that describes any failure and is meant for machine parsing and tidy display in the CLI.

status represents the current information/status for the persistent volume. Populated by the system. Read-only. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes#persistent-volumes

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