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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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Types of volume sources

Workspaces need some sort of volume to mount the files to be shared. These types of volumes are called VolumeSources. The volume source you will use with your workspace will depend on the goals you want to achieve. The examples that will follow in this chapter will mainly target emptyDir and persistent volume claims. Still, four different sources are available to you when you author your tasks and pipelines.

emptyDir

emptyDir is, as the name suggests, an empty directory that is attached to a task run. This temporary folder should only be used in the context of a task and is not suitable to share information across tasks in a pipeline. It is, however, a straightforward mechanism that you can use to share data across steps in a task. This approach should be prioritized over using the home folder, as demonstrated in Chapter 4, Stepping into Tasks.

ConfigMap

The config map source lets your users use a Kubernetes-native ConfigMap object as a workspace...

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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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