kubernetes-plugin and PersistentVolumeClaims

[Scott Grissom]

I have a use case where a PersistentVolumeClaim is used to clone a volume snapshot, which is a prebuilt m2 repository. A PVC object needs to be created before creating the Pod object, then deleted after the pod finishes.

Using kubernetes-plugin, it seems that the yaml attribute in the declarative pipeline only supports Pod objects. Before I go off and try to figure out how to script the creation of a PVC object before launching the Pod, I wanted to ask if there is a mechanism in this plugin that would help manage a PVC lifecycle...and I'm just not seeing it. 

[Usov Dmitri]

https://github.com/jenkinsci/kubernetes-cd-plugin

kubernetes-cd plugin has the capability to create a pvc, the recent plugin version has got fixed an issue with subsequent invocation of a yaml that creates/updates a pvc.

Regards,

Dmitri

[scottyg]

kubernetes-cd is certainly possible, though I haven't figured out how I would use in in a declarative pipeline in conjunction with the kubernetes-plugin yet. But overall it's a less than ideal solution for my use case:

- Cannot use the existing configuration with kubernetes-plugin

- Have to install kubectl on some non-kube node.

I was hoping to find a natural way to integrate creation of PVC before agent launch into kubernetes-plugin but I'm not seeing a clean way to accomplish it.