There is currently some work being done for improving local storage usage in k8s. https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/306 https://github.com/kubernetes

There is currently some work being done for improving local storage usage in k8s. https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/306 https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/306 Additionally k8s can be configured to restart pods on the same node so you can use the local node storage for persistence and rely on your DB for replication.