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Nikola Borisov
Nikola Borisov

Reputation: 368

running multiple containers uses a lot of disk space

I have a container with pytorch. The container is 3GB. When i run 20 instances of this container it takes 60GB of disk space. I basically have 20 copies of the same library. Is it possible not to have separate copies of the filesystem of the container. If the container fs is set to readonly would that help? Im running in k8s.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 219

Answers (1)

Harsh Manvar
Harsh Manvar

Reputation: 30093

Is it possible not to have separate copies of the filesystem of the
container.

Yes, you can do that.

You can have the ReadOnlyMany file system or ReadWriteMany file system.

Hostpath

You can also leverage the Hostpath to save the files over there and when POD is scheduled on that node it will use from there.

Make sure if your node goes down you might lose the saved file on that node, instead using above solution would be good.

EFS or NFS

If you are on GCP or AWS you can use the existing FS solution to mount the existing file system to multiple POD.

You can also create your own NFS file system and save files into it, when POD gets scheduled it will start using files from NFS shared file system.

GCP Filestore

Upvotes: 1

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