Expanding the Ephemeral Storage

Scenarios

By default, CCI allocates 30 GiB of free ephemeral storage space to a pod. The storage space is unavailable when the pod is not in use. If the pod needs to write a large amount of data to rootfs or emptyDir or if the image size is greater than 30 GiB, you need to expand the ephemeral storage capacity.

Precautions

• The maximum ephemeral storage capacity is 994 GiB.
• When the ephemeral storage space is expanded, workload creation is slower than before because the capacity expansion takes time.

Expanding the Ephemeral Storage Using YAML

• Add 10-GiB ephemeral storage space when creating a pod. The YAML file is defined as follows:

  apiVersion: cci/v2
  kind: Pod 
  metadata:  
    name: nginx  
    namespace: ns 
  spec:  
    extraEphemeralStorage:    
      sizeInGiB: 10  
    containers:  
    - name: container-1    
      image: nginx:latest

• Add 10-GiB ephemeral storage space when creating a Deployment. The YAML file is defined as follows:

  apiVersion: cci/v2
  kind: Deployment
  metadata:
    name: nginx
    namespace: ns
  spec:
    replicas: 1
    selector:
      matchLabels:
        app: nginx
    template:
      metadata:
        labels:
          app: nginx
      spec:
        extraEphemeralStorage:
          sizeInGiB: 10
        containers:
        - image: nginx:latest
          name: container-0

Verifying the Capacity Expansion

1. Log in to the CCI 2.0 console.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Workloads. Locate the target workload and click its name to go to the details page. On the Pods tab, locate the target pod and click View Terminal.

   

3. Enter lsblk and press Enter to check the system disk size after the expansion. (The default ephemeral storage capacity is 30 GiB.)