# Change the Access Mode of a PersistentVolume to ReadWriteOncePod — cat-pictures-writer-deployment.yaml

> apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: cat-pictures-writer spec: replicas: 3 selector: matchLabels: app: cat-pictures-writer template: metadata: labels: app: cat-pictures-writer spec: containers: name: nginx image: nginx:1.14.2 ports: containerPort: 80 volumeMounts: name: cat-pictures

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apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: cat-pictures-writer spec: replicas: 3 selector: matchLabels: app: cat-pictures-writer template: metadata: labels: app: cat-pictures-writer spec: containers: name: nginx image: nginx:1.14.2 ports: containerPort: 80 volumeMounts: name: cat-pictures mountPath: /mnt volumes: name: cat-pictures persistentVolumeClaim: claimName: cat-pictures-pvc readOnly: false

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As a first step, you need to edit your PersistentVolume's
`spec.persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy` and set it to `Retain`. This ensures your
PersistentVolume will not be deleted when you delete the corresponding
PersistentVolumeClaim:
```

kubectl patch pv cat-pictures-pv -p '{"spec":{"persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy":"Retain"}}'

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Next you need to stop any workloads that are using the PersistentVolumeClaim
bound to the PersistentVolume you want to migrate, and then delete the
PersistentVolumeClaim. Avoid making any other changes to the
PersistentVolumeClaim, such as volume resizes, until after the migration is
complete.

Once that is done, you need to clear your PersistentVolume's `spec.claimRef.uid`
to ensure PersistentVolumeClaims can bind to it upon recreation:
```

kubectl scale --replicas=0 deployment cat-pictures-writer kubectl delete pvc cat-pictures-pvc kubectl patch pv cat-pictures-pv -p '{"spec":{"claimRef":{"uid":""}}}'

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After that, replace the PersistentVolume's list of valid access modes to be
(only) `ReadWriteOncePod`:
```

kubectl patch pv cat-pictures-pv -p '{"spec":{"accessModes":["ReadWriteOncePod"]}}'

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