website/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-projected-volume-storage.md

approvers	title
jpeeler pmorie	Configure a Pod to Use a Projected Volume for Storage

{% capture overview %} This page shows how to use a projected volume to mount several existing volume sources into the same directory. Currently, secret, configMap, and downwardAPI volumes can be projected. {% endcapture %}

{% capture prerequisites %} {% include task-tutorial-prereqs.md %} {% endcapture %}

{% capture steps %}

Configure a projected volume for a pod

In this exercise, you create username and password Secrets from local files. You then create a Pod that runs one Container, using a projected Volume to mount the Secrets into the same shared directory.

Here is the configuration file for the Pod:

{% include code.html language="yaml" file="projected-volume.yaml" ghlink="/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/projected-volume.yaml" %}

1. Create the Secrets:

   # Create files containing the username and password:
   echo -n "admin" > ./username.txt
   echo -n "1f2d1e2e67df" > ./password.txt
   
   # Package these files into secrets:
   kubectl create secret generic user --from-file=./username.txt
   kubectl create secret generic pass --from-file=./password.txt
   

2. Create the Pod:

   kubectl create -f projected-volume.yaml
   

3. Verify that the Pod's Container is running, and then watch for changes to the Pod:

   kubectl get --watch pod test-projected-volume
   

   The output looks like this:

    NAME                    READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
    test-projected-volume   1/1       Running   0          14s
   

4. In another terminal, get a shell to the running Container:

   kubectl exec -it test-projected-volume -- /bin/sh
   

5. In your shell, verify that the projected-volume directory contains your projected sources:

   / # ls /projected-volume/
   

{% endcapture %}

{% capture whatsnext %}

• Learn more about projected volumes.
• Read the the all-in-one volume design document. {% endcapture %}

{% include templates/task.md %}