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Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA (Kubernetes v1.35 curriculum) · Domain 4: Storage

Static PVs: hostPath for labs, local volumes with nodeAffinity, NFS

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

Without a dynamic provisioner, an administrator creates PersistentVolumes by hand, which is called static provisioning. The CKA often asks you to write such a PV, so know three common backends and their manifests.

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