Using Kubernetes Container Storage Interface drivers
Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. In a Kubernetes environment, a container is similar to a VM, but a container has relaxed isolation properties to share the Operating System (OS) among its applications. Therefore, containers are considered to be more lightweight than VMs. Similar to a VM, a container has its own filesystem, a share of allocated CPU, memory, process space, and more. As they are decoupled from the underlying infrastructure, they are portable across clouds and OS distributions. If you have a Kubernetes cluster, you can install and configure Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers across the instances in your cluster to allow them to use an existing Amazon S3 File Gateway for storage.
After you install the CSI drivers for the type of file share that you want to use, you
must create one or more storage objects. Depending on the type of provisioning that you want
Kubernetes to use when your pods request storage, you must create either a single Kubernetes
StorageClass object, or both a PersistentVolume object
and a PersistentVolumeClaim object to connect your
Kubernetes compute pods to your file share. For more information, refer to the Kubernetes
online documentation at https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/
