Choose how workspace data is persisted

Choose a storage strategy for OpenShift Dev Spaces to provide persistent or non-persistent storage to workspaces. The selected strategy applies to all newly created workspaces by default.

Before you begin

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About this task

Available storage strategies:

per-user: Use a single PVC for all workspaces created by a user.
per-workspace: Each workspace gets its own PVC.
ephemeral: Non-persistent storage; any local changes are lost when the workspace is stopped.

The default storage strategy used in OpenShift Dev Spaces is per-user.

Procedure

Set the pvcStrategy field in the CheCluster Custom Resource to per-user, per-workspace, or ephemeral:

spec:
  devEnvironments:
    storage:
      pvc:
        pvcStrategy: 'per-user'

where:

pvcStrategy: The available storage strategies are per-user, per-workspace, and ephemeral.

Note:

You can set this field at installation or update it on the command line.

Results

Verify the pvcStrategy value in the CheCluster Custom Resource:

oc get checluster devspaces -n openshift-devspaces -o jsonpath='{.spec.devEnvironments.storage.pvc.pvcStrategy}'