Red Hat OpenShift service on AWS storage overview

Volume access modes describe volume capabilities. You can use access modes to match persistent volume claim (PVC) and persistent volume (PV). The following are the examples of access modes:

A config map provides a way to inject configuration data into pods. You can reference the data stored in a config map in a volume of type ConfigMap. Applications running in a pod can use this data.

An API specification for the management of container storage across different container orchestration (CO) systems.

The framework allows you to create storage volumes on-demand, eliminating the need for cluster administrators to pre-provision persistent storage.

Pods and containers can require temporary or transient local storage for their operation. The lifetime of this ephemeral storage does not extend beyond the life of the individual pod, and this ephemeral storage cannot be shared across pods.

The fsGroup defines a file system group ID of a pod.

A hostPath volume in an OpenShift Container Platform cluster mounts a file or directory from the host node’s filesystem into your pod.

The Key Management service (KMS) helps you achieve the required level of encryption of your data across different services. you can use the KMS key to encrypt, decrypt, and re-encrypt data.

A local volume represents a mounted local storage device such as a disk, partition or directory.

A provider of agnostic persistent storage for OpenShift Container Platform supporting file, block, and object storage, either in-house or in hybrid clouds

Pods and containers can require permanent storage for their operation. Red Hat OpenShift service on AWS uses the Kubernetes persistent volume (PV) framework to allow cluster administrators to provision persistent storage for a cluster. Developers can use PVC to request PV resources without having specific knowledge of the underlying storage infrastructure.

Red Hat OpenShift service on AWS uses the Kubernetes persistent volume (PV) framework to allow cluster administrators to provision persistent storage for a cluster. Developers can use PVC to request PV resources without having specific knowledge of the underlying storage infrastructure.

You can use a PVC to mount a PersistentVolume into a Pod. You can access the storage without knowing the details of the cloud environment.

One or more containers with shared resources, such as volume and IP addresses, running in your Red Hat OpenShift service on AWS cluster. A pod is the smallest compute unit defined, deployed, and managed.

A policy that tells the cluster what to do with the volume after it is released. A volume’s reclaim policy can be Retain, Recycle, or Delete.

Role-based access control (RBAC) is a method of regulating access to computer or network resources based on the roles of individual users within your organization.

A stateless application is an application program that does not save client data generated in one session for use in the next session with that client.

A stateful application is an application program that saves data to persistent disk storage. A server, client, and applications can use a persistent disk storage. You can use the Statefulset object in Red Hat OpenShift service on AWS to manage the deployment and scaling of a set of Pods, and provides guarantee about the ordering and uniqueness of these Pods.

A cluster administrator creates a number of PVs. PVs contain the details of storage. PVs exist in the Kubernetes API and are available for consumption.

Red Hat OpenShift service on AWS supports many types of storage, both for on-premise and cloud providers. You can manage container storage for persistent and non-persistent data in an Red Hat OpenShift service on AWS cluster.

A storage class provides a way for administrators to describe the classes of storage they offer. Different classes might map to quality of service levels, backup policies, arbitrary policies determined by the cluster administrators.