I have put neo4j community edition(v3.2.2) into kubernetes. But the community edition do not support hot backup so I have to shut it down for backup/restore data.
I tried:
kubectl exec neo4j-0 /var/lib/neo4j/bin/neo4j stopbut it shows:
Neo4j not runningalso tried:
kubectl exec -it neo4j-0 bash
/var/lib/neo4j/bin/neo4j stopbut still can't stop the neo4j in container
Neo4j not runningDoes any body have a solution?
You can not stop the main process inside a container, otherwise it will be considered as dead and Kubernetes will terminate this pod and schedule a new healthy one.
Also Kubernetes does not support suspending pods. It's cheaper to stop/start pods.
So, in your case, I'd recommend to down scale you deployment to zero replicas during backup
kubectl scale --replicas=0 deployment/neo4jand up scale back to required replicas once backup is completed
kubectl scale --replicas=1 deployment/neo4j