Understanding how to mount a PersistentVolume to your Pod claims

We can now try to mount a PersistentVolume object to a Pod. To do that, we will need to use another object, which is the second object we need to explore in this chapter, called PersistentVolumeClaim.

Introducing PersistentVolumeClaim

Just like PersistentVolume or ConfigMap, PersistentVolumeClaim is another independent resource kind living within your Kubernetes cluster.

. First, bear in mind that even if both names are almost the same, PersistentVolume and PersistentVolumeClaim are two distinct resources that represent two different things.

You can list the PersistentVolumeClaim resource kind created within your cluster using kubectl, as follows:

$ kubectl get persistentvolumeclaims
No resources found in default namespace.

The following output is telling me that I don't have any PersistentVolumeClaim resources created within my cluster. Please note that the pvc alias works, too:

$ kubectl get pvc
No resources found...