A Git remote helper which allows the use of a Kubernetes PVC as the git repo storage.
Assuming you have $HOME/bin in your $PATH, you may use the following command to install
git-remote-k8s. It must be named git-remote-k8s (without the .sh), be executable, and
be in your PATH to work.
ln -sf $PWD/git-remote-k8s.sh $HOME/bin/git-remote-k8sYou must have access to a kubernetes cluster using kubectl where you can provision a persistent volume somehow and bind it to a claim. If you can "create a new PVC for a pod", you're probably good to go. If you instead get a pending claim forever, you will need to setup a volume provider which can do dynamic provisioning. I've been using longhorn lately since it has very simple backups. I have been very happy with it but YMMV. k3s also comes with a local dynamic provisioner and that would also work.
If you use this with minikube or similar and then delete your cluster, you will lose the git repo stored in the volume! Use with caution in non-prod environments. And use caution in prod, too! Don't forget backups.
The URL format for git-remote-k8s is k8s://kubectl-context/namespace/pvc.
A common name for a kubectl context is default. Yours will be found via
kubectl config view and some information may be found in the
kubectl Cheat Sheet.
For example, this PVC in the cluster accessed via the default context would
be k8s://default/git-remote-test/git-remote-k8s:
NAMESPACE NAME STATUS VOLUME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES STORAGECLASS AGE
git-remote-test git-remote-k8s Bound pvc-abcdef10-1023-1025-1024-123456789123 1Gi RWO ssd 91m
Cloning:
git clone k8s://context/namespace/pvcAdding a remote:
git remote add origin k8s//context/namespace/pvc