I am running Gunicorn with a Flask app in a Kubernetes cluster and have some symlink for configuration files.

For example: /home/application/con.cfg is linked to /home/application/stage/my_config.cfg

I am able to see symlinks in the Kubernetes pods. But it fails when Gunicorn starting with an error:

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: /home/application/con.cfg

When I hard-code the path in python code, it works fine.