How much storage is available in a container?

[Shmelov]

Hello!

I’m curious about the amount of non-persistent storage available for containers, as I’m considering an alternative approach for handling PocketBase’s logs.db file. My concern arises from the realization that users can significantly inflate my volume’s storage by generating extensive logs, which occupy a considerable amount of space. Despite attempting to manage log persistence, the issue persists. I’m contemplating whether relocating logs.db to the container’s storage could offer a solution. Thank you for your insights.

[greg]

Hi,

I believe the unofficial answer is you get ~8GB of ephemeral storage. But that will be lost on a restart and so the recommended approach is to use a volume to store data.

For more:

Scaling Ephemeral Disk

It’s not! We actually don’t intend for the ephemeral disk space to be written to. It’s writable just because so much stuff breaks without it, but we’d make it readonly if we could. You can use autoscaling with persistent volumes, though, so that’s worth a try. We’ll have a better way to autoscale with disks in a few months.

and

How much file system space do apps have?

You are reading this correctly. You are not breaking any rules. The only caveat is that the amount of available space isn’t something that is advertised or guaranteed forever. If you want a guarantee, use a volume, otherwise, enjoy it while it lasts!