Placing Files In A Kubernetes Persistent Volume Store On GKE

It turns out there is a much simpler way: The kubectl cp command.

This command lets you copy data from your computer to a container running on your cluster.

In my case I ran:

kubectl cp ~/.factorio/saves/k8s-test.zip factorio/factorio-0:/factorio/saves/

This copied the k8s-test.zip file on my computer to /factorio/saves/k8s-test.zip in a container running on my cluster.

See kubectl cp -h for more more detail usage information and examples.

You can create data-folder on your GoogleCloud:

gcloud compute ssh <your cloud> <your zone>
mdkir data

Then create PersistentVolume:

kubectl create -f hostpth-pv.yml

kind: PersistentVolume
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: pv-local
  labels:
    type: local
spec:
  storageClassName: local
  capacity:
    storage: 5Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: "/home/<user-name>/data"

Create PersistentVolumeClaim:

kubectl create -f hostpath-pvc.yml

kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: hostpath-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: local
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      type: local

Then copy file to GCloud:

gcloud compute scp <your file> <your cloud> <your zone> 

And at last mount this PersistentVolumeClaim to your pod:

...
      volumeMounts:
       - name: hostpath-pvc
         mountPath: <your-path>
         subPath: hostpath-pvc  
  volumes:
    - name: hostpath-pvc
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: hostpath-pvc

And copy file to data-folder in GGloud:

  gcloud compute scp <your file> <your cloud>:/home/<user-name>/data/hostpath-pvc <your zone>