📄️ About Block Volumes
Apiculus Block Volumes are the underlying software-defined volume management layer that powers various storage-related or storage-driven cloud Services. Block Volumes can be used with Linux and Windows Instances as root and data disks; with Kubernetes as persistent storage; or simply as a storehouse for Snapshots and Images.
📄️ Working with Instance Volumes
Each Instance on Apiculus (Linux or Windows) includes a 'root' disk or volume. This is the primary disk partition on the Instance, and by default, all operating systems, data, components and files reside on the root disk.
📄️ Working with Volume Snapshots
The Apiculus Block Volumes Service allows for extensively working with volume snapshots. Snapshots are point-in-time 'images' of the contents of a volume and can be used as a restoration point for the parent volume. The following sections outline all available snapshot functions and capabilities on Apiculus CloudConsole.
📄️ Using Block Volumes with Kubernetes
Apiculus Kubernetes (AK8s) also uses the underlying Block Volumes service to create persistent volumes for the Kubernetes clusters being created. Apiculus CloudConsole users can specify the root disk size for each cluster node (control and worker) and the Block Volume service will create the nodes in the cluster with a root disk of the specified size.