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I am using a manually created Kubernetes Cluster (using kubeadm) deployed on AWS ec2 instances (manually created ec2 instances). I want to use AWS EBS volumes for Kubernetes persistent volume. How can I use AWS EBS volumes within Kubernetes cluster for persistent volumes?

Cluster details:

  • kubectl veresion: 1.19
  • kubeadm veresion: 1.19
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  • Basic functionality is already included in k8s, but you might want to CSI and the EBS CSI. – jordanm Sep 24 '21 at 18:12
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    You can install the CSI driver: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-ebs-csi-driver and use it to dynamically provision EBS volumes for the PVC resources you create. – S.D. Sep 24 '21 at 18:21
  • I have tried EBS CSI too. but no hope – Suresh Sep 24 '21 at 18:22
  • @Suresh Well, it is the standard solution for EBS provisioning. The other choice is to manually attach a large-enough EBS devices to each of bare metal nodes and then install open-ebs to provision volumes ( created and deleted as directories in device mount path on the same node) https://docs.openebs.io/docs/next/localpv.html – S.D. Sep 24 '21 at 18:25
  • Hi @Suresh, which exactly problem you have with EBS CSI? Could you please paste some logs / steps that you followed? – Mikolaj S. Sep 27 '21 at 09:20

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Posted community wiki for better visibility with general solution as there are no further details / logs provided. Feel free to expand it.

The official supported way to mount Amazon Elastic Block Store as Kubernetes volume on the self-managed Kubernetes cluster running on AWS is to use awsElasticBlockStorevolume type.

To manage the lifecycle of Amazon EBS volumes on the self-managed Kubernetes cluster running on AWS please install Amazon Elastic Block Store Container Storage Interface Driver.

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