💭 Inspect a Kubernetes PersistentVolumeClaim | Frank Sauerburger
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!https://frank.sauerburger.io/2021/12/01/inspect-k8s-pvc.html

Date: October 21, 2023

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I was curious to see what was going on inside of my minio object storage. Great technique here by Frank to create an inspector pod, then you can do as you wish with the data.

I created the manifest as `pvc-inspector.yml`

``` yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
 name: pvc-inspector
spec:
 containers:
 - image: busybox
 name: pvc-inspector
 command: ["tail"]
 args: ["-f", "/dev/null"]
 volumeMounts:
 - mountPath: /pvc
 name: pvc-mount
 volumes:
 - name: pvc-mount
 persistentVolumeClaim:
 claimName: pvc-name
```

Then used it like this.

``` bash
# create pvc-inspector pod
kubectl apply -f pvc-inspector.yml
# exec into inspector
kubectl exec -it pvc-inspector -- sh
# explore data
ls /pvc
# cleanup
kubectl delete -f pvc-inspector.yml
```

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