diff --git a/snakemake/executors/__init__.py b/snakemake/executors/__init__.py
index 582370e0a..349e6e71d 100644
--- a/snakemake/executors/__init__.py
+++ b/snakemake/executors/__init__.py
@@ -1911,6 +1911,7 @@ def run(self, job, callback=None, submit_callback=None, error_callback=None):
             container.env.append(envvar)
 
         # request resources
+        logger.debug(f"job resources:  {dict(job.resources)}")
         container.resources = kubernetes.client.V1ResourceRequirements()
         container.resources.requests = {}
         container.resources.requests["cpu"] = job.resources["_cores"]
@@ -1918,6 +1919,11 @@ def run(self, job, callback=None, submit_callback=None, error_callback=None):
             container.resources.requests["memory"] = "{}M".format(
                 job.resources["mem_mb"]
             )
+        if "disk_mb" in job.resources.keys():
+            disk_mb = int(job.resources.get("disk_mb", 1024))
+            container.resources.requests["ephemeral-storage"] = f"{disk_mb}M"
+
+        logger.debug(f"k8s pod resources: {container.resources.requests}")
 
         # capabilities
         if job.needs_singularity and self.workflow.use_singularity:
diff --git a/tests/test_kubernetes.py b/tests/test_kubernetes.py
index e6dd028fb..f7d843814 100644
--- a/tests/test_kubernetes.py
+++ b/tests/test_kubernetes.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ def __init__(self):
             try:
                 shell(
                     """
-                    gcloud container clusters create {self.cluster} --num-nodes 3 --scopes storage-rw --zone us-central1-a --machine-type n1-standard-2
+                    gcloud container clusters create {self.cluster} --num-nodes 3 --scopes storage-rw --zone us-central1-a --machine-type n1-standard-2 --ephemeral-storage local-ssd-count=1
                     gcloud container clusters get-credentials {self.cluster} --zone us-central1-a
                     gsutil mb gs://{self.bucket_name}
                     """
diff --git a/tests/test_kubernetes/Snakefile b/tests/test_kubernetes/Snakefile
index 1aeae1ab8..d031096cb 100644
--- a/tests/test_kubernetes/Snakefile
+++ b/tests/test_kubernetes/Snakefile
@@ -20,11 +20,13 @@ rule copy:
         "landsat-data.txt",
     resources:
         mem_mb=100,
+        disk_mb=301000
     run:
-        # we could test volume size like this but it is currently unclear what f1-micro instances provide as boot disk size
-        # stats = os.statvfs('.')
-        # volume_gib = stats.f_bsize * stats.f_blocks / 1.074e9
-        # assert volume_gib > 90
+        # Nominally, we have attached a 375GB SSD to our underlying cluster node, and requested 301GB above.
+        stats = os.statvfs('.')
+        volume_gb = stats.f_bsize * stats.f_blocks / 1.0e9
+        assert volume_gb >= 300
+
         shell("cp {input} {output}")