# StatefulSet Basics — Writing to stable storage

> Get the PersistentVolumeClaims for web-0 and web-1 Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl get pvc -l app=nginx ``` Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text NAME STATUS VOLUME CAPACITY ACCESSMODES AGE www-web-0 Bound pvc

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Get the PersistentVolumeClaims for web-0 and web-1

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl get pvc -l app=nginx
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
NAME        STATUS    VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESSMODES   AGE
www-web-0   Bound     pvc-15c268c7-b507-11e6-932f-42010a800002   1Gi        RWO           48s
www-web-1   Bound     pvc-15c79307-b507-11e6-932f-42010a800002   1Gi        RWO           48s
```

The StatefulSet controller created two that are bound to two

As the cluster used in this tutorial is configured to dynamically provision PersistentVolumes, the PersistentVolumes were created and bound automatically.

The NGINX webserver, by default, serves an index file from /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html. The volumeMounts field in the StatefulSet's spec ensures that the /usr/share/nginx/html directory is backed by a PersistentVolume.

Write the Pods' hostnames to their index.html files and verify that the NGINX webservers serve the hostnames

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
for i in 0 1; do kubectl exec "web-$i" -- sh -c 'echo "$(hostname)" &gt; /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html'; done

for i in 0 1; do kubectl exec -i -t "web-$i" -- curl http://localhost/; done
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
web-0
web-1
```

If you instead see 403 Forbidden responses for the above curl command, you will need to fix the permissions of the directory mounted by the volumeMounts (due to a bug when using hostPath volumes), by running

for i in 0 1; do kubectl exec web-$i -- chmod 755 /usr/share/nginx/html; done

before retrying the curl command above.

In one terminal, watch the StatefulSet's Pods

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