During development of an application meant to be orchestrated by Kubemetes, you want to mount...

= This strategy will not successfully accomplish this. A PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) is a request for storage by a user that is automatically bound to a suitable PersistentVolume (PV) by Kubernetes1. A PV is a piece of storage in the cluster that has been provisioned by an administrator or dynamically provisioned using StorageClasses1. A hostPath is a type of volume that mounts a file or directory from the host node’s filesystem into a pod2. It is mainly used for development and testing on a single-node cluster, and not recommended for production use2.

The problem with this strategy is that it assumes that the hostPath /data on the node is the same as the /data directory on your laptop. This is not necessarily true, as the node may be a different machine than your laptop, or it may have a different filesystem layout. Also, the hostPath volume is not portable across nodes, so if your pod is scheduled on a different node, it will not have access to the same /data directory2. Furthermore,the storageClass parameter is not applicable for hostPath volumes, as they are not dynamically provisioned3.

To mount the /data directory on your laptop into a container, you need to use a different type of volume that supports remote access, such as NFS, Ceph, or GlusterFS4. You also need to make sure that your laptop is accessible from the cluster network and that it has the appropriate permissions to share the /data directory. Alternatively, you can usea tool like Skaffold or Telepresence to sync your local files with your cluster56. References:

Persistent Volumes | Kubernetes

Volumes | Kubernetes

Storage Classes | Kubernetes

Kubernetes Storage Options | Kubernetes Academy

Skaffold | Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

Telepresence: fast, local development for Kubernetes and OpenShift microservices