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authorVladi <emve.dev@yandex.ru>2016-08-24 12:59:44 -0700
committerVladi <emve.dev@yandex.ru>2016-08-24 12:59:44 -0700
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Doc: Explain how to use EBS storage on AWS
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@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ often faster, and historically more reliable. Unless you can make do with
whatever space is left on your root partition, you must choose an instance type
that provides you with sufficient instance storage for your needs.
+To configure Kubernetes to use EBS storage, pass the environment variable
+`KUBE_AWS_STORAGE=ebs` to kube-up.
+
Note: The master uses a persistent volume ([etcd](architecture.md#etcd)) to
track its state. Similar to nodes, containers are mostly run against instance
storage, except that we repoint some important data onto the persistent volume.