Maybe you can use a flexVolume plugin? (in bash like the lvm example)
(https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/examples/volumes/flexvolume/README.md)
in the mount you can check if the ssd drive is mounted and then create a new 
directory that you can remove when the unmount method is called.


On Friday, March 3, 2017 at 3:24:50 PM UTC-3, Richard Musiol wrote:
> Hi Michelle, Hi Tim,
> 
> 
> there is one local SSD per node, so yes, it is shared between many pods.
> 
> 
> Solution 1 is already a step forward, but I would really like to use a local 
> SSD. The use case is that I'm running Buildkite agents on that cluster and I 
> want to autoscale them. The limits of a normal disk were very quickly reached 
> with that kind of workload, switching to the local SSD solved it.
> 
> 
> Solution 2 sounds involved, but I'm willing to be a guinea pig for this 
> because the workload is not production critical.
> 
> 
> -Richard
> 
> 
> 'Michelle Au' via Kubernetes user discussion and Q&A 
> <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 2. März 2017 um 23:33 Uhr:
> 
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> 
> Are you sharing the local SSD between many pods, or just one pod per SSD?
> 
> 
> If sharing is ok, then in the short term we could look into one of the 
> following approaches:
> 1. Ability to create a GKE cluster with kubelet installed on top of a PD-SSD. 
>  Then all EmptyDirs will use this PD.  It's not going to perform as well as a 
> local SSD though.
> 2. Use the alpha flex volumes interface with an lvm plugin, that can carve 
> out lvs out of a vg comprised of local SSDs. The vgs would have to be 
> precreated by some DaemonSet on each node before any normal pods start 
> running.  This approach would be meant as a short term solution for now and 
> require some extra management by the user/admin.  Flex itself is alpha and 
> going through lots of revision.
> 
> 
> If dedicated disks are required, then we don't have any short-term solutions 
> besides hostpath.  The long term solution is to expose disks as LocalDisk 
> PVs, and for the temporary use cases, have an "inline" option where the PV 
> gets created and destroyed with the pod.
> 
> 
> 
> -Michelle
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:33 AM, 'Tim Hockin' via Kubernetes user discussion 
> and Q&A <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There isn't a clean way to express what you want today.  There are some ideas 
> about being able to express local storage as volumes, but that work is a long 
> pipeline for what feels.like a simple request.
> 
> 
> We already have an idea of "medium" in emptyDir.  What if we extended that?  
> The question becomes how to express that multitudes of potential SSD 
> technologies, current and yet to be developed, without resorting to calling 
> them all the same?
> 
> 
> You could imagine a way to config kubelet to build a map of local mountpoints 
> as named "Local" media, and then allow users to request those.  It's 
> imperfect in a lot of ways, but it might be tractable.
> 
> 
> @vishh @msau this comes up not FREQUENTLY but enough that maybe we want to 
> think of a short term goal here?
> 
> 
> Just thinking out loud...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 2, 2017 9:21 AM, "Richard Musiol" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I would like to use GKE's local SSD feature to have fast temporary disk space.
> 
> 
> The problem when using it with a "hostPath" volume as described on 
> https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/local-ssd is that the 
> temporary files do not get removed when the pod gets deleted. Over time the 
> local SSD would fill up.
> 
> 
> The volume type "emptyDir" would do what I want, but I don't see how to put 
> it on the local SSD.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
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