Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is a highly versatile and secure storage service designed primarily for Amazon EC2. It is also well-known for being the fastest storage that AWS offers and is fully supported by Kubernetes, making it the best choice for our storage needs.

In this hands-on Cloud Lab, we’ll create a Kubernetes Cluster using the EBS storage service through an EC2 instance, create, and claim persistent storage, and attach our persistent storage with a Jenkins container.

Lab tasks

Create an S3 Bucket
Create an EC2 Instance
Create AWS config File and Access Key
Create a kOps cluster
Create EBS Volumes.
Create and Claim Persistent Storage
Deploy Jenkins on Kubernetes
Clean up

Architecture diagram

The following is the high-level architecture diagram of how to deploy stateful applications with persistent states: