In GKE, can we specify the zone or region of a persistent volume when we create it through a PVC object

I want my persistent volume to reside in a specific zone, say us-central1-a, but I want to deploy it through a PVC, not by creating an object of PV directly. Is this possible in GKE?

Solution

It doesn't appear that you can specify a zone for a PV or PVC, but you can set volumeBindingMode: WaitForFirstConsumer on the StorageClass to ensure that the PV is in the same zone as the pod that uses it. nodeSelector on the pod can then be used to choose the zone.

apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
kind: StorageClass
metadata:
  name: ssd
parameters:
  type: pd-ssd
provisioner: kubernetes.io/gce-pd
reclaimPolicy: Delete
volumeBindingMode: WaitForFirstConsumer
allowVolumeExpansion: true

PVC:

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: db
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 200Gi
  storageClassName: ssd

pod:

kind: Pod
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: foo
spec:
  nodeSelector:
    failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone: us-central1-a
  containers:
    ...