The limit for emptyDir on AKS is 50GB  @HansEdert  I think this statement is not true anymore. I have tested LTS 2024.09 with AKS 1.29 with default setting emptyDir, I could write 100GB data to SASWORK without problems.  hostPath If we create node pool with  KubeletDiskType=Temporary , emptyDir will pickup SSD as volume, there is no need to mount SSD using hosPath. link:feat: Add OS and Kubelet disk type options. by Carus11 · Pull Request #385 · sassoftware/viya4-iac-azure Quata on SASWORK I fount that we can set a quota on emptyDir by setting limits of phemeral-storage on podtemplate definition.  Example: I setup a ephemeral-storage limit as 50 GB, sas-compute-server-xxx pod will be deleted by k8s when SASWORK exceed 50GB. --- apiVersion: builtin kind: PatchTransformer metadata: name: add-viya-volume-requests-limits-sas-batch-cmd-pod-template # Ensure resources exist patch: |- - op: add path: /template/spec/containers/0/resources value: {} # Ensure requests exist - op: add path: /template/spec/containers/0/resources/requests value: {} # Add ephemeral-storage to requests if missing - op: add path: /template/spec/containers/0/resources/requests/ephemeral-storage value: "1Gi" # Ensure limits exist - op: add path: /template/spec/containers/0/resources/limits value: {} # Add ephemeral-storage to limits if missing - op: add path: /template/spec/containers/0/resources/limits/ephemeral-storage value: "50Gi" target: kind: PodTemplate labelSelector: "sas.com/pod-container-image=sas-programming-environment"   ... View more

Great Post!  I keep coming back to this post multiple times when I plan the storage option for viya. It would be really helpful to have the same guide for other platforms such as AWS and GCP. Thanks, Caili ... View more

Hi Scott  Thanks for sharing, This is really helpful since related documents are separeted, and you bring them all together.   Quick question how to [ add the XML file to the sas-pyconfig persistent volume]? I have tried to use `kubectl cp` command to copy file from local to sas-cas-server-default-controller pod, but failed.   kubectl cp site-config/extlang.xml sas-cas-server-default-controller:/opt/sas/viya/home/sas-pyconfig/extlang.xml Defaulted container "sas-cas-server" out of: sas-cas-server, sas-backup-agent, sas-consul-agent, sas-certframe (init), sas-config-init (init) tar: extlang.xml: Cannot open: Read-only file system tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors command terminated with exit code 2 ... View more