minikube/docs/persistent_volumes.md

Persistent Volumes

Minikube supports PersistentVolumes of type hostPath. These PersistentVolumes are mapped to a directory inside the minikube VM.

The Minikube VM boots into a tmpfs, so most directories will not be persisted across reboots (minikube stop). However, Minikube is configured to persist files stored under the following directories in the minikube VM:

• /data
• /var/lib/localkube
• /var/lib/docker
• /tmp/hostpath_pv
• /tmp/hostpath-provisioner

Here is an example PersistentVolume config to persist data in the '/data' directory:

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: pv0001
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  capacity:
    storage: 5Gi
  hostPath:
    path: /data/pv0001/

You can also achieve persistence by creating a PV in a mounted host folder.