Kubernetes volumeMount folder and file permissions? - kubernetes

Question

Trying to mount config files from a hostPath to a kubernetes container. This works using minikube and VirtualBox shared folder, but I am unable to make this work on Linux.
I making use of AWS EKS and the following architecture https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/amazon-eks/. I think my problem is that the files need to live on each of the EKS Node instances.
Here is the architecture diagram:
Below is the Deployment file.
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: openhim-core-deployment
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
component: openhim-core
template:
metadata:
labels:
component: openhim-core
spec:
volumes:
- name: core-config
hostPath:
path: /var/config/openhim-core
containers:
- name: openhim-core
image: jembi/openhim-core:5.rc
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
- containerPort: 5000
- containerPort: 5001
volumeMounts:
- name: core-config
mountPath: /usr/src/app/config
env:
- name: NODE_ENV
value: development

Answer 1

After much pain I found that I am trying to place the configuration on the Linux Bastion host where I have access to kubectl but in fact this configuration will have to be on each of the EC2 instances in every availability zone.
The solution for me was to make use of a initContainer.
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: openhim-core-deployment
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
component: openhim-core
template:
metadata:
labels:
component: openhim-core
spec:
volumes:
- name: core-config
hostPath:
path: /var/config/openhim-core
containers:
- name: openhim-core
image: jembi/openhim-core:5
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
- containerPort: 5000
- containerPort: 5001
volumeMounts:
- name: core-config
mountPath: /usr/src/app/config
env:
- name: NODE_ENV
value: development
initContainers:
- name: install
image: busybox
command:
- wget
- "-O"
- "/usr/src/app/config/development.json"
- https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/../development.json
volumeMounts:
- name: core-config
mountPath: "/usr/src/app/config"
volumes:
- name: core-config
emptyDir: {}