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title: Local Path Provisioner
description: Dynamically provisioning persistent local storage with Kubernetes 
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# Purpose

Storage for paths on the local node's NVME drive. When high performance, but non-redundant storage is required.

# Notes

Primarily used by the databases, PostgreSQL and MariaDB, since they have internal clustering and increasing their read/write speeds is very beneficial.
