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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer CKAD (Kubernetes v1.35 curriculum) · Domain 1: Application Design and Build

Mounting volumes with volumeMounts, mountPath, subPath and readOnly

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

Declaring a volume under spec.volumes only makes it available to the Pod. Each container that needs it must also list it under its own volumeMounts, linking the volume's name to a mountPath inside the container. Two containers can mount the same volume at different paths, which is how they share files.

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