Helm postgres cannot create directory

8/6/2020

I'm using Helm to deploy postgres on Kubernetes cluster. I create a persistent volume and a persistent volume claim:

pv.yaml:

<pre> apiVersion: v1 kind: PersistentVolume metadata: name: task-pv-volume labels: type: local spec: storageClassName: manual capacity: storage: 10Gi accessModes: - ReadWriteMany hostPath: path: "/mnt/data" </pre>

pvc.yaml:

<pre> apiVersion: v1 kind: PersistentVolumeClaim metadata: name: task-pv-claim spec: storageClassName: manual accessModes: - ReadWriteOnce resources: requests: storage: 8Gi </pre>

and run helm with command:

helm install my-release stable/postgresql --set persistence.existingClaim=task-pv-claim

but Pods is in state CrashLoopBackOff. Logs of the pod say:

<pre> postgresql 12:12:18.62 postgresql 12:12:18.62 Welcome to the Bitnami postgresql container postgresql 12:12:18.62 Subscribe to project updates by watching https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-postgresql postgresql 12:12:18.62 Submit issues and feature requests at https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-postgresql/issues postgresql 12:12:18.63 Send us your feedback at containers@bitnami.com postgresql 12:12:18.63 postgresql 12:12:18.65 INFO ==> ** Starting PostgreSQL setup ** postgresql 12:12:18.73 INFO ==> Validating settings in POSTGRESQL_* env vars.. postgresql 12:12:18.73 INFO ==> Loading custom pre-init scripts... postgresql 12:12:18.74 INFO ==> Initializing PostgreSQL database... mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/bitnami/postgresql/data’: Permission denied postgresql 12:12:18.76 INFO ==> Stopping PostgreSQL... </pre>

How can i fix it?

-- pado
kubernetes
kubernetes-helm
postgresql

1 Answer

8/6/2020

Try setting the helm charts volumePermissions.enabled to true.

Sometimes the cluster settings don't give the running container enough permissions to actuall write to the mounted volume by default.

-- David Losert
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