Reclaim policy for persistent volumes

The reclaim policy of a persistent volume tells the cluster what to do with the volume after it is released. A volume’s reclaim policy can be Retain, Recycle, or Delete.

  • Retain reclaim policy allows manual reclamation of the resource for those volume plugins that support it.

  • Recycle reclaim policy recycles the volume back into the pool of unbound persistent volumes once it is released from its claim.

Important

The Recycle reclaim policy is deprecated in {product-title} 4. Dynamic provisioning is recommended for equivalent and better functionality.

  • Delete reclaim policy deletes both the PersistentVolume object from {product-title} and the associated storage asset in external infrastructure, such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) or VMware vSphere.

Note

Dynamically provisioned volumes are always deleted.

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