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Persistent Volume - CI/CD Glossary Definition

A persistent volume is cluster storage whose lifecycle is independent of any pod, claimed by a pod through a PersistentVolumeClaim. It survives pod restarts, which is what makes stateful workloads possible.

In CI

A persistent volume can hold a shared build or dependency cache across runner pods, but ephemeral-runner setups usually prefer a registry-backed cache so each job stays clean.

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