kubernetes persistent volume accessmode

Question

It seems that Kube.netes supports 3 kinds of access mode for persistent volume: ReadWriteOnce , ReadOnlyMany , ReadWriteMany . I'm really curious about the scheduler strategy for a pod which uses the ReadWriteOnce mode volume. For example, I created an RC which have pod num=2, I guess the two pods will be scheduled into the same host because they use the volume that has ReadWriteOnce mode? I really want to know the source code of this part.

Answer 1

If a pod mounts a volume with ReadWriteOnce access mode, no other pod can mount it. In GCE (Google Compute Engine) the only allowed modes are ReadWriteOnce and ReadOnlyMany . So either one pod mounts the volume ReadWrite , or one or more pods mount the volume ReadOnlyMany .

The scheduler (code here ) will not allow a pod to schedule if it uses a GCE volume that has already been mounted read-write.

(Documentation reference for those who didn't understand the question: persistent volume access modes )

Answer 2

I think the upvoted answer is wrong. As per Kubernetes docs on Access Modes

The access modes are:

• ReadWriteOnce -- the volume can be mounted as read-write by a single node
• ReadOnlyMany -- the volume can be mounted read-only by many nodes
• ReadWriteMany -- the volume can be mounted as read-write by many nodes

So AccessModes as defined today, only describe node attach (not pod mount) semantics, and doesn't enforce anything.

So to prevent two pods mount the same PVC even if they are scheduled to be run on the same node you can use pod anti-affinity. It is not the same as not to mount one volume to 2 pods scheduled on the same node. But anti-affinity can be used to ask scheduler not to run 2 pods on the same node. Therefore it prevents mounting one volume into 2 pods.

Answer 3

In Kube.netes you provision storage either statically(using a storage class) or dynamically (Persistent Volume). Once the storage is available to bound and claimed, you need to configure it in what way your Pods or Nodes are connecting to the storage (a persistent volume). That could be configured in below four modes.

ReadOnlyMany (ROX)
In this mode multiple pods running on different Nodes could connect to the storage and carry out read operation.

ReadWriteMany (RWX)
In this mode multiple pods running on different Nodes could connect to the storage and carry out read and write operation.

ReadWriteOnce (RWO)
In this mode multiple pods running in only one Node could connect to the storage and carry out read and write operation.

ReadWriteOncePod (RWOP)
In this mode the volume can be mounted as read-write by a single Pod. Use ReadWriteOncePod access mode if you want to ensure that only one pod across whole cluster can read that PVC or write to it. This is only supported for CSI volumes and Kube.netes version 1.22+.

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