Local Path Provisioner Add-On beta

Local Path Provisioner is a minimal PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) provisioner that uses the Kubernetes Local Persistent Volume feature to expose node-local storage. For more information, see Local Path Provisioner in the Rancher GitHub organization.

Local Path Provisioner uses the /opt/local-path-provisioner directory for storage on all nodes. This directory must have enough space to hold a complete copy of each PVC on a given node. To determine how much space is required on the directory, note that each GB of storage used in a PVC requires 1 GB of disk usage. Because volume capacity limits are not enforced, using a separate volume for this directory is recommended.

Advanced Install Options

spec:
  localPathProvisioner:
    version: 0.0.22

Limitations

The Local Path Provisioner add-on has the following limitations:

• The Local Path Provisioner add-on is Beta. Rancher, the upstream developer, does not consider the Local Path Provisioner project to be stable. For more information, see Local Path Provisioner in the Rancher GitHub organization.
• Volume capacity limits are not enforced.
• The Local Path Provisioner is incompatible with the Velero add-on as Restic does not support hostPath volumes. For more information, see Limitations in the Velero GitHub repository.