From 27458174bbf694b82b08e9b80ff90c056db703e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladi Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:59:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Doc: Explain how to use EBS storage on AWS --- docs/design/aws_under_the_hood.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/design/aws_under_the_hood.md b/docs/design/aws_under_the_hood.md index 3ff1c17ecd..3e4f04561d 100644 --- a/docs/design/aws_under_the_hood.md +++ b/docs/design/aws_under_the_hood.md @@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ often faster, and historically more reliable. Unless you can make do with whatever space is left on your root partition, you must choose an instance type that provides you with sufficient instance storage for your needs. +To configure Kubernetes to use EBS storage, pass the environment variable +`KUBE_AWS_STORAGE=ebs` to kube-up. + Note: The master uses a persistent volume ([etcd](architecture.md#etcd)) to track its state. Similar to nodes, containers are mostly run against instance storage, except that we repoint some important data onto the persistent volume.