If you are using Kubeadm to run the Quickstart for Kubernetes tutorial, a default storage class and an associated provisioner must be manually created. To achieve this, proceed with the steps described in the link, and after running the command in Create Server Bundle Configmap, Role & ClusterRoleBinding, apply the following files.
kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
namespace: kube-system
name: standard
annotations: