apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: wheresmyvolume spec: selector: matchLabels: app: wheresmyvolume replicas: 1 template: metadata: labels: app: wheresmyvolume spec: containers: - name: writer image: centos:7 command: - sh - '-c' - "printf 'some important data to persist' > /tmp/out/data; sleep 10000" volumeMounts: - name: xchange mountPath: /tmp/out - name: reader image: centos:7 command: - sh - '-c' - "ls -la /tmp/in/; sleep 10000" volumeMounts: - name: xchange mountPath: /tmp/in volumes: - name: xchange emptyDir: {}