This type of storage that is external to the container is specifically geared toward keeping data separate from your container instances, as we would expect, but is limited to usability only within containers deployed to the same node. Such storage allows a stateless container setup and has many development-geared uses, such as isolated builds and reading of configuration files, but for clustered deployments it is severely limited, as containers that run on other nodes will not have any access to data created on the original node. In either case, we will cover all of these node-local storage types here since most large clusters use some combination of node-local storage and relocatable storage.