There Is a New Volume Type in Town!
Lightningat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Thursday, 2025-04-03· at 17:25· Level 0 | ICC Auditorium·
summary
New Kubernetes volume type "image" mounts an OCI image (or generic OCI artifact) into a container so you can mount models as OCI images and serve a small LLM inside a Ramalama runtime, or run VS Code Server via image volume to debug live containers. KEP-4639 landed under a year ago, alpha in Kubernetes 1.31 and expected beta by 1.33; CRI-O, containerd, Podman and Docker are adding support and demo scripts show the approach working end to end. Podman and Docker support
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