Volumes

The Volumes menu is used to create and manage storage that can be accessed by containers in a pod in the Deka GPU Portal Service. On the Volume menu there are features that you can use, including creating a new volume, deleting a volume.

Create New Volumes

Create Volumes is used to create Persistent Volumes (PV) or Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) that function as persistent storage for various components in the Deka GPU Portal Service, such as Notebooks, Pipelines, and other components that require consistent data storage. On the Volume menu page and press the New Volume button, and the New Volume window will appear.

The columns you can fill in are Name, Volume size in GI, Storage Class, and Access Mode. After filling in all the columns in the New Volume window, press the Create button to create a new volume.

PVCViewer

PVC Viewer is used to make it easier for users to view and manage Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) used in Kubernetes. To be able to use the download and upload features in PVCViewer, make sure that when creating a volume you have selected the volume access mode used to be ReadWriteMany and press the Folder icon to open PVCViewer.

After pressing the folder icon, a new tab will appear as shown in the image below.

Create New Folder

Create New Folder is used to create a new directory within the PVC to organize data. On the PVC Viewer page press the New Folder button.

The New Directory window appears, enter the file name and press the CREATE button.

If the folder is successfully created, the folder that has been created will appear.

Create New File

Create New File is used to create a new file in the PVC. On the PVC Viewer page press the New File button.

The New Directory window appears, enter the file name and press the CREATE button.

You will automatically be directed to a new tab to enter the contents of the file to be saved.

Setting PVCViewer

PVCViewer settings are used to manage PVC Viewer configuration such as access rights, display settings, and storage integration. On the PVC Viewer page press the Settings button.

On the PVCViewer Settings page, four tabs are available including:

a. Profile Settings used to set access rights, manage users, and define global settings that affect how PVCs can be used, updated used passwords, and shared within the MLOps environment in Deka GPU Portal Services. On the Profile Settings tab there are two sections, namely:

• Profile Settings this section is there Hide dotfiles used to hide files or directories that start with a dot (.) in the file manager view, Use single clicks to open files and directories used to open files and folders in the file viewer with one click., Set exact date format used to Set the format of the date and time displayed in the file viewer to suit certain preferences or standards, and Language used to change the language used.

• Change Password used to update the password used.

b. Share Management is used to set this dataset as read-only for other team members and read-write only for administrators.

c. Global Settings used to ensure that no PVC exceeds 50Gi in size and sets a weekly backup policy for PVCs used in the main pipeline.

d. User Management used to add new team members to Kubeflow and give them the Editor role so they can manage script files, but cannot change global settings or delete volumes.

Upload File in PVCViewer

Upload File in PVC Viewer is used to upload files from the local computer to a specific directory within the PVC. On the PVC Viewer page press the upload icon.

The Upload window appears and select the file to upload from your computer.

Download File in PVCViewer

Download File in PVC Viewer is used to download files or folders from PVC to the local computer. On the PVCViewer page press the download icon.

The Download Files window appears, determine the extension tip that will be downloaded.

Delete PVCViewer

To delete a Volume in a section MLOps in the Deka GPU Portal Service select the Volume menu and determine the volume to be deleted by pressing the Delete icon.

Press the Delete button to continue the Volume deletion process.