Storage Provisioning for Kubernetes on Windows

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Kubernetes persistent storage on Windows supports in-tree file volumes today — the demo provisions Azure File via Samba and mounts it into a SQL Server pod successfully; block support is partial (Azure Disk and GCE PD work, AWS EBS WIP). Dynamic iSCSI provisioning works as a proof‑of‑concept using a targetd iSCSI external provisioner plus FlexVolume. The Container Storage Interface is not usable yet because Windows lacks privileged containers and mount propagation, so CSI needs either a host proxy binary or a containerd-level hack to work.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:59Storage Concepts
3. 9:22Persistent storage interfaces
4. 12:42Considerations for Windows Disk device and Volume enumeration interfaces
5. 14:00In-tree storage support for Windows

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