Minikube Storage: PersistentVolumes, StorageClasses, and Data Persistence#

Minikube ships with a built-in storage provisioner that handles PersistentVolumeClaims automatically. Understanding how it works – and where it differs from production storage – is essential for testing stateful workloads locally.

Default Storage: The hostPath Provisioner#

When you start minikube, it registers a default StorageClass called standard backed by the k8s.io/minikube-hostpath provisioner. This provisioner creates PersistentVolumes as directories on the minikube node’s filesystem.