Kubernetes v1.34: Recovery From Volume Expansion Failure (GA)

Have you ever made a typo when expanding your persistent volumes in Kubernetes? Meant to specify 2TB but specified 20TiB ? This seemingly innocuous problem was kinda hard to fix - and took the project almost 5 years to fix. Automated recovery from storage expansion has been around for a while in beta; however, with the v1.34 release, we have graduated this to general availability . While it was always possible to recover from failing volume expansions manually, it usually required cluster-admin access and was tedious to do (See aformentioned link for more information). What if you make a mistake and then realize immediately? With Kubernetes v1.34, you should be able to reduce the requested size of the PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) and, as long as the expansion to previously requested size hadn't finished, you can amend the size requested. Kubernetes will automatically work to correct it. Any quota consumed by failed expansion will be returned to the user and the associated PersistentVolu