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Stateful applications create a demand for persistent storage. All the storage in OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 is managed separately from compute resources and from all networking and connectivity infrastructure facilities. The CSI API is designed to abstract storage use and enable storage portability.
This Ready Stack implements the following Kubernetes storage concepts:
These constructs are used within the Kubernetes container infrastructure to maintain storage for all the container ecosystem components that depend on storage. Developers and operators can deploy applications and provision or deprovision persistent storage without having any specific technical knowledge of the underlying storage technology.
The OpenShift Container Platform administrator is responsible for provisioning storage classes and making them available to the tenants of the cluster.
Storage using PVCs is consumed or used in two ways: statically or dynamically. Static storage can be attached to one or more pods by static assignment of a PV to a PVC and then to a specific pod or pods.
OpenShift Container Platform natively supports the following PV types:
The CSI API extends the storage types that can be used within an OpenShift Container Platform solution.