Question: what happens when you delete a volume / volume claim?

[chrisfosterelli]

When you delete the annotated volume claim, kubernetes cleans up the underlying EBS volume, and the snapshots appear to stay around. What happens in that case? Do they stay around forever, or are they incrementally cleaned up as per the (now deleted) annotation schedule?

Sorry if this has been asked before -- I did a look through and didn't see it however.

[miracle2k]

I would assume they stay around forever. We don't currently manage the lifecycle of volumes. Something worth considering though.

[chrisfosterelli]

Ah okay! I think it'd be nice for them to clean up on the same schedule, but just knowing how that works is helpful enough in itself so we can know to go manually track them down. We can close this issue if you'd like -- or should we keep it open as a feature request?