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Setting custom tags on dynamically provisioned Volumes
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Since the version 1.6.0 of the EBS CSI driver it is now possible to define a set of custom tags to add the the volumes.
06/07/2022
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Extend a Linux file system (XFS) on an NVMe EBS volumes
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If we are using a NVMe EBS volumes, even though on the AWS Console we will see it as something like /dev/xvdait won't be visible on the Linux system using this name: We will have to look for /dev/nvme devices
07/02/2022
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kubernetes: Mount an existing EBS volume to a pod
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If you have an existing EBS volume that you want to use on your EKS cluster, or you don't want to let Kubernetes to manage your volumes, you can use awsElasticBlockStore to link an existing EBS volume to a PersistentVolume or use it directly as a volume on a pod spec:
24/05/2021
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AWS EKS: How to resize Persistent Volumes
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On a AWS EKS cluster, at the time of this writing, by default you cannot resize volumes provisioned with the default gp2 StorageClass. This is because on the default StorageClass the allowVolumeExpansion is set to false, preventing the volume expansion:
$ kubectl get sc NAME PROVISIONER RECLAIMPOLICY VOLUMEBINDINGMODE ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION AGE gp2 (default) kubernetes.io/aws-ebs Delete WaitForFirstConsumer false 78d10/05/2021
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