I am trying to get some persistant storage for a docker instance of PostgreSQL running on Kubernetes. However, the pod fails with
FATAL: data directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" has wrong ownership
HINT: The server must be started by the user that owns the data directory.
This is the NFS configuration:
% exportfs -v
/srv/nfs/postgresql/postgres-registry
kubehost*.example.com(rw,wdelay,insecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,sec=sys,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash)
$ ls -ldn /srv/nfs/postgresql/postgres-registry
drwxrwxrwx. 3 999 999 4096 Jul 24 15:02 /srv/nfs/postgresql/postgres-registry
$ ls -ln /srv/nfs/postgresql/postgres-registry
total 4
drwx------. 2 999 999 4096 Jul 25 08:36 pgdata
The full log from the pod:
2019-07-25T07:32:50.617532000Z The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
2019-07-25T07:32:50.618113000Z This user must also own the server process.
2019-07-25T07:32:50.619048000Z The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".
2019-07-25T07:32:50.619496000Z The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
2019-07-25T07:32:50.619943000Z The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
2019-07-25T07:32:50.620826000Z Data page checksums are disabled.
2019-07-25T07:32:50.621697000Z fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgresql/data ... ok
2019-07-25T07:32:50.647445000Z creating subdirectories ... ok
2019-07-25T07:32:50.765065000Z selecting default max_connections ... 20
2019-07-25T07:32:51.035710000Z selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB
2019-07-25T07:32:51.062039000Z selecting default timezone ... Etc/UTC
2019-07-25T07:32:51.062828000Z selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... posix
2019-07-25T07:32:51.218995000Z creating configuration files ... ok
2019-07-25T07:32:51.252788000Z 2019-07-25 07:32:51.251 UTC [79] FATAL: data directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" has wrong ownership
2019-07-25T07:32:51.253339000Z 2019-07-25 07:32:51.251 UTC [79] HINT: The server must be started by the user that owns the data directory.
2019-07-25T07:32:51.262238000Z child process exited with exit code 1
2019-07-25T07:32:51.263194000Z initdb: removing contents of data directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data"
2019-07-25T07:32:51.380205000Z running bootstrap script ...
The deployment has the following in:
securityContext:
runAsUser: 999
supplementalGroups: [999,1000]
fsGroup: 999
What am I doing wrong?
Edit: Added storage.yaml file:
kind: PersistentVolume
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: postgres-registry-pv-volume
spec:
capacity:
storage: 5Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
nfs:
server: 192.168.3.7
path: /srv/nfs/postgresql/postgres-registry
---
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: postgres-registry-pv-claim
labels:
app: postgres-registry
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
resources:
requests:
storage: 5Gi
Edit: And the full deployment:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: postgres-registry
spec:
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: postgres-registry
spec:
securityContext:
runAsUser: 999
supplementalGroups: [999,1000]
fsGroup: 999
containers:
- name: postgres-registry
image: postgres:latest
imagePullPolicy: "IfNotPresent"
ports:
- containerPort: 5432
env:
- name: POSTGRES_DB
value: postgresdb
- name: POSTGRES_USER
value: postgres
- name: POSTGRES_PASSWORD
value: Sekret
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data
subPath: "pgdata"
name: postgredb-registry-persistent-storage
volumes:
- name: postgredb-registry-persistent-storage
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: postgres-registry-pv-claim
Even more debugging adding:
command: ["/bin/bash", "-c"]
args:["id -u; ls -ldn /var/lib/postgresql/data"]
Which returned:
999
drwx------. 2 99 99 4096 Jul 25 09:11 /var/lib/postgresql/data
Clearly, the UID/GID are wrong. Why?
Even with the work around suggested by Jakub Bujny, I get this:
2019-07-25T09:32:08.734807000Z The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
2019-07-25T09:32:08.735335000Z This user must also own the server process.
2019-07-25T09:32:08.736976000Z The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".
2019-07-25T09:32:08.737416000Z The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
2019-07-25T09:32:08.737882000Z The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
2019-07-25T09:32:08.738754000Z Data page checksums are disabled.
2019-07-25T09:32:08.739648000Z fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgresql/data ... ok
2019-07-25T09:32:08.766606000Z creating subdirectories ... ok
2019-07-25T09:32:08.852381000Z selecting default max_connections ... 20
2019-07-25T09:32:09.119031000Z selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB
2019-07-25T09:32:09.145069000Z selecting default timezone ... Etc/UTC
2019-07-25T09:32:09.145730000Z selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... posix
2019-07-25T09:32:09.168161000Z creating configuration files ... ok
2019-07-25T09:32:09.200134000Z 2019-07-25 09:32:09.199 UTC [70] FATAL: data directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" has wrong ownership
2019-07-25T09:32:09.200715000Z 2019-07-25 09:32:09.199 UTC [70] HINT: The server must be started by the user that owns the data directory.
2019-07-25T09:32:09.208849000Z child process exited with exit code 1
2019-07-25T09:32:09.209316000Z initdb: removing contents of data directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data"
2019-07-25T09:32:09.274741000Z running bootstrap script ... 999
2019-07-25T09:32:09.278124000Z drwx------. 2 99 99 4096 Jul 25 09:32 /var/lib/postgresql/data
Using your setup and ensuring the nfs mount is owned by 999:999 it worked just fine. You're also missing an 's' in your name: postgredb-registry-persistent-storage
And with your subPath: "pgdata"
do you need to change the $PGDATA? I didn't include the subpath for this.
$ sudo mount 172.29.0.218:/test/nfs ./nfs
$ sudo su -c "ls -al ./nfs" postgres
total 8
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 Jul 25 14:44 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 rei rei 4096 Jul 25 14:44 ..
$ kubectl apply -f nfspv.yaml
persistentvolume/postgres-registry-pv-volume created
persistentvolumeclaim/postgres-registry-pv-claim created
$ kubectl apply -f postgres.yaml
deployment.extensions/postgres-registry created
$ sudo su -c "ls -al ./nfs" postgres
total 124
drwx------ 19 postgres postgres 4096 Jul 25 14:46 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 rei rei 4096 Jul 25 14:44 ..
drwx------ 3 postgres postgres 4096 Jul 25 14:46 base
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 Jul 25 14:46 global
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 Jul 25 14:46 pg_commit_ts
. . .
I noticed using nfs:
directly in the persistent volume took significantly longer to initialize the database, whereas using hostPath:
to the mounted nfs volume behaved normally.
So after a few minutes:
$ kubectl logs postgres-registry-675869694-9fp52 | tail -n 3
2019-07-25 21:50:57.181 UTC [30] LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
done
server started
$ kubectl exec -it postgres-registry-675869694-9fp52 psql
psql (11.4 (Debian 11.4-1.pgdg90+1))
Type "help" for help.
postgres=#
Checking the uid/gid
$ kubectl exec -it postgres-registry-675869694-9fp52 bash
postgres@postgres-registry-675869694-9fp52:/$ whoami && id -u && id -g
postgres
999
999
nfspv.yaml
:
kind: PersistentVolume
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: postgres-registry-pv-volume
spec:
capacity:
storage: 5Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
nfs:
server: 172.29.0.218
path: /test/nfs
---
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: postgres-registry-pv-claim
labels:
app: postgres-registry
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
resources:
requests:
storage: 5Gi
postgres.yaml
:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: postgres-registry
spec:
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: postgres-registry
spec:
securityContext:
runAsUser: 999
supplementalGroups: [999,1000]
fsGroup: 999
containers:
- name: postgres-registry
image: postgres:latest
imagePullPolicy: "IfNotPresent"
ports:
- containerPort: 5432
env:
- name: POSTGRES_DB
value: postgresdb
- name: POSTGRES_USER
value: postgres
- name: POSTGRES_PASSWORD
value: Sekret
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data
name: postgresdb-registry-persistent-storage
volumes:
- name: postgresdb-registry-persistent-storage
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: postgres-registry-pv-claim
I cannot explain why those 2 IDs are different but as workaround I would try to override postgres's entrypoint with
command: ["/bin/bash", "-c"]
args: ["chown -R 999:999 /var/lib/postgresql/data && ./docker-entrypoint.sh postgres"]
This type of errors is quite common when you link a NTFS directory into your docker container. NTFS directories don't support ext3 file & directory access control. The only way to make it work is to link directory from a ext3 drive into your container.
I got a bit desperate when I played around Apache / PHP containers with linking the www folder. After I linked files reside on a ext3 filesystem the problem disappear.
I published a short Docker tutorial on youtube, may it helps to understand this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS9O05TTFjM