How to map one single file into kubernetes pod using hostPath? - kubernetes

I have one own nginx configuration /home/ubuntu/workspace/web.conf generated by script. I prefer to have it under /etc/nginx/conf.d besides default.conf
Below is the nginx.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: nginx
spec:
volumes:
- name: webconf
hostPath:
path: /home/ubuntu/workspace/web.conf
containers:
- image: nginx
name: nginx
ports:
- containerPort: 18001
protocol: TCP
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /etc/nginx/conf.d/web.conf
name: web
While it is mapped as folder only
$ kubectl create -f nginx.yaml
pod "nginx" created
$ kubectl exec -it nginx -- bash
root#nginx:/app# ls -al /etc/nginx/conf.d/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Aug 3 12:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Aug 3 11:46 ..
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1093 Jul 11 13:06 default.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 3 11:46 web.conf
It works for docker container -v hostfile:containerfile.
How can I do this in kubernetes ?
BTW: I use minikube 0.21.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with kvm

Try using the subPath key on your volumeMounts like this:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: singlefile
spec:
containers:
- image: ubuntu
name: singlefiletest
command:
- /bin/bash
- -c
- ls -la /singlefile/ && cat /singlefile/hosts
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /singlefile/hosts
name: etc
subPath: hosts
volumes:
- name: etc
hostPath:
path: /etc
Example:
$ kubectl apply -f singlefile.yaml
pod "singlefile" created
$ kubectl logs singlefile
total 24
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 3 12:50 .
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 4096 Aug 3 12:50 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1213 Apr 26 21:25 hosts
# /etc/hosts: Local Host Database
#
# This file describes a number of aliases-to-address mappings for the for
# local hosts that share this file.
...

Actually it is caused by kvm which is used by minikube.
path: /home/ubuntu/workspace/web.conf
If I login to minikube, it is folder in vm.
$ ls -al /home/ubuntu/workspace # in minikube host
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Aug 3 12:11 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Aug 3 19:28 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 1184 Aug 3 12:11 web.conf
$ minikube ssh
$ ls -al /home/ubuntu/workspace # in minikube vm
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Aug 3 19:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Aug 3 19:41 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 3 19:41 web.conf
I don't know exactly why kvm host folder sharing behalf like this.
Therefore instead I use minikube mount command, see host_folder_mount.md, then it works as expected.

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Weird permissions podman docker-compose volume

I have specified docker-compose.yml file with some volumes to mount. Here is example:
backend-move:
container_name: backend-move
environment:
APP_ENV: prod
image: backend-move:latest
logging:
options:
max-size: 250m
ports:
- 8080:8080
tty: true
volumes:
- php_static_logos:/app/public/images/logos
- ./volumes/nginx-php/robots.txt:/var/www/html/public/robots.txt
- ./volumes/backend/mysql:/app/mysql
- ./volumes/backend/httpd/welcome.conf:/etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf
After I run podman-compose up -d and go to container through docker exec -it backend-move bash
I have this crazy permissions (??????????) on mounted files:
bash-4.4$ ls -la
ls: cannot access 'welcome.conf': Permission denied
total 28
drwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 114 Apr 21 12:29 .
drwxrwxrwx. 5 root root 105 Apr 21 12:29 ..
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 400 Mar 21 17:33 README
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 2926 Mar 21 17:33 autoindex.conf
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 1517 Apr 21 12:29 php.conf
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8712 Apr 21 12:29 ssl.conf
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 1252 Mar 21 17:27 userdir.conf
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? welcome.conf
Any suggestions?
[root#45 /]# podman-compose --version
['podman', '--version', '']
using podman version: 3.4.2
podman-composer version 1.0.3
podman --version
podman version 3.4.2
facing the exact same issue, although on macos with the podman machine, since the parent dir has been mounted on the podman-machine, I do get the write permissions.
Although, on linux, it just fails as in your example.
To fix my issue, I had to add:
privileged: true

k8s: configmap mounted inside symbolic link to "..data" directory

Here my volumeMount:
volumeMounts:
- name: interpreter-spec-volume
mountPath: /zeppelin/k8s/interpreter
Here my volumes:
volumes:
- name: interpreter-spec-volume
configMap:
name: zeppelin-files
items:
- key: interpreter-spec.yaml
path: interpreter-spec.yaml
Problem arises how volume is mounted. My volumeMount is mounted as:
kubectl exec -ti zeppelin-759db57cb6-xw42b -- ls -la /zeppelin/k8s/interpreter
total 0
drwxrwxrwx. 3 root root 88 Jul 7 13:18 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 53 Jun 8 12:12 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 35 Jul 7 13:18 ..2020_07_07_13_18_32.149716995
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 31 Jul 7 13:18 ..data -> ..2020_07_07_13_18_32.149716995
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 28 Jul 7 13:18 interpreter-spec.yaml -> ..data/interpreter-spec.yaml
Why it's mounting ..data directory to itself?
What can I say - this is almost not documented expected behavior. This is due to how secrets and configmaps are mounted into the running container.
When you mount a secret or configmap as volume, the path at which Kubernetes will mount it will contain the root level items symlinking the same names into a ..data directory, which is symlink to real mountpoint.
For example,
kubectl exec -ti zeppelin-759db57cb6-xw42b -- ls -la /zeppelin/k8s/interpreter
total 0
drwxrwxrwx. 3 root root 88 Jul 7 13:18 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 53 Jun 8 12:12 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 35 Jul 7 13:18 ..2020_07_07_13_18_32.149716995
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 31 Jul 7 13:18 ..data -> ..2020_07_07_13_18_32.149716995
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 28 Jul 7 13:18 interpreter-spec.yaml -> ..data/interpreter-spec.yaml
The real mountpoint (..2020_07_07_13_18_32.149716995 in the example above) will change each time the secret or configmap(in your case) is updated, so the real path of your interpreter-spec.yaml will change after each update.
What you can do is use subpath option in volumeMounts. By design, a container using secrets and configmaps as a subPath volume mount will not receive updates. You can leverage on this feature to singularly mount files. You will need to change the pod spec each time you add/remove any file to/from the secret / configmap, and a deployment rollout will be required to apply changes after each secret / configmap update.
volumeMounts:
- name: interpreter-spec-volume
mountPath: /zeppelin/k8s/interpreter
subPath: interpreter-spec.yaml
volumes:
- name: interpreter-spec-volume
configMap:
name: zeppelin-files
I would also like to mention Kubernetes config map symlinks (..data/) : is there a way to avoid them? question here, where you may find additional info.

How to deploy Postgresql on Kubernetes with NFS volume

I'm using the below manifest to deploy postgresql on kubernetes within NFS persistent volume:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: nfs2
spec:
capacity:
storage: 6Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
nfs:
server: 10.139.82.123
path: /nfsfileshare/postgres
---
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: nfs2
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
resources:
requests:
storage: 6Gi
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: db
labels:
app: aiflow-db
spec:
selector:
app: aiflow-db
clusterIP: None
ports:
- port: 5432
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: db
namespace: test-aiflow
labels:
app: aiflow-db
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: aiflow-db
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: aiflow-db
spec:
containers:
- name: db
image: postgresql:10
ports:
- containerPort: 5432
env:
- name: PGDATA
value: /var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
name: nfs2
volumes:
- name: nfs2
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: nfs2
restartPolicy: Always
The pg data can be mounted to nfs server (/nfsfileshare/postgres *(rw,async,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)):
total 124
drwx------ 19 999 root 4096 Aug 7 11:10 ./
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Aug 7 10:28 ../
drwx------ 3 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:02 base/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:10 global/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:01 pg_commit_ts/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:01 pg_dynshmem/
-rw------- 1 999 docker 4513 Aug 7 11:02 pg_hba.conf
-rw------- 1 999 docker 1636 Aug 7 11:02 pg_ident.conf
drwx------ 4 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:09 pg_logical/
drwx------ 4 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:01 pg_multixact/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:10 pg_notify/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:02 pg_replslot/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:01 pg_serial/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:01 pg_snapshots/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:02 pg_stat/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:02 pg_stat_tmp/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:02 pg_subtrans/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:02 pg_tblspc/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:01 pg_twophase/
-rw------- 1 999 docker 3 Aug 7 11:02 PG_VERSION
drwx------ 3 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:02 pg_wal/
drwx------ 2 999 docker 4096 Aug 7 11:02 pg_xact/
-rw------- 1 999 docker 88 Aug 7 11:02 postgresql.auto.conf
-rw------- 1 999 docker 22729 Aug 7 11:02 postgresql.conf
-rw------- 1 999 docker 74 Aug 7 11:10 postmaster.pid
However the container is stuck with below log:
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"postgres". This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8". The
default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8". The
default text search configuration will be set to "english".
Data page checksums are disabled.
fixing permissions on existing directory
/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default
shared_buffers ... 128MB selecting dynamic shared memory
implementation ... posix creating configuration files ... ok running
bootstrap script ... ok
Seems it stuck on post-bootstrap initialization.
It works only if I do not use nfs volume (works by using hostPath volume), why is that?
NFS does not support fsync kernel vfs call which is required transaction logs for ensuring the writing out the redo logs on the disk. So you should use block storage when you need to use RDBMS, such as PostgreSQL and MySQL. You might lose the data consistency althogh you can run the one on the NFS.
I meet the same question, When I use helm deploy the gitlab, the postgresql can't run, and errors below:
FATAL: data directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata" has wrong ownership.
HINT: The server must be started by the user that owns the data directory.
I think it's because the postgresql run property need it's data should be own by user postgres and group postgres, but the nfs change the own user and group, makes the postgresql can't run.
Maybe change another tools like glusterfs can solve this problem, or try mysql's data mount by nfs.

Kubernetes config map symlinks (..data/) : is there a way to avoid them?

I have noticed that when I create and mount a config map that contains some text files, the container will see those files as symlinks to ../data/myfile.txt .
For example, if my config map is named tc-configs and contains 2 xml files named stripe1.xml and stripe2.xml, if I mount this config map to /configs in my container, I will have, in my container :
bash-4.4# ls -al /configs/
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jun 4 14:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jun 4 14:47 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 4 14:47 ..2018_06_04_14_47_03.291041453
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jun 4 14:47 ..data -> ..2018_06_04_14_47_03.291041453
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 4 14:47 stripe1.xml -> ..data/stripe1.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 4 14:47 stripe2.xml -> ..data/stripe2.xml
I guess Kubernetes requires those symlinks and ../data and ..timestamp/ folders, but I know some applications that can fail to startup if they see non expected files or folders
Is there a way to tell Kubernetes not to generate all those symlinks and directly mount the files ?
I think this solution is satisfactory : specifying exact file path in mountPath, will get rid of the symlinks to ..data and ..2018_06_04_19_31_41.860238952
So if I apply such a manifest :
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: my-lamp-site
spec:
containers:
- name: php
image: php:7.0-apache
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /var/www/html/users.xml
name: site-data
subPath: users.xml
volumes:
- name: site-data
configMap:
name: users
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: users
data:
users.xml: |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<users>
</users>
Apparently, I'm making use of subpath explicitly, and they're not part of the "auto update magic" from ConfigMaps, I won't see any more symlinks :
$ kubectl exec my-lamp-site -c php -- ls -al /var/www/html
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 4 19:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jun 4 17:58 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73 Jun 4 19:18 users.xml
Be careful to not forget subPath, otherwise users.xml will be a directory !
Back to my initial manifest :
spec:
containers:
- name: php
image: php:7.0-apache
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /var/www/html
name: site-data
volumes:
- name: site-data
configMap:
name: users
I'll see those symlinks coming back :
$ kubectl exec my-lamp-site -c php -- ls -al /var/www/html
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jun 4 19:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 4 17:58 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 4 19:31 ..2018_06_04_19_31_41.860238952
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jun 4 19:31 ..data -> ..2018_06_04_19_31_41.860238952
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 4 19:31 users.xml -> ..data/users.xml
Many thanks to psycotica0 on K8s Canada slack for putting me on the right track with subpath (they are quickly mentioned in configmap documentation)
I am afraid I don't know if you can tell Kubernetes not to generate those symlinks although I think that it is a native behaviour.
If having those files and links is an issue, a workaround that I can think of is to mount the configmap on one folder and copy the files over to another folder when you initialise the container:
initContainers:
- name: copy-config
image: busybox
command: ['sh', '-c', 'cp /configmap/* /configs']
volumeMounts:
- name: configmap
mountPath: /configmap
- name: config
mountPath: /configs
But you would have to declare two volumes, one for the configMap (configmap) and one for the final directory (config):
volumes:
- name: config
emptyDir: {}
- name: configmap
configMap:
name: myconfigmap
Change the type of volume for the config volume as you please obviously.

Kubernetes 1.4 secret file permission not working

running K8s 1.4 with minikube on mac. I have the following in my replication controller yaml:
volumes:
- name: secret-volume
secret:
secretName: config-ssh-key-secret
items:
- key: "id_rsa"
path: ./id_rsa
mode: 0400
- key: "id_rsa.pub"
path: ./id_rsa.pub
- key: "known_hosts"
path: ./known_hosts
volumeMounts:
- name: secret-volume
readOnly: true
mountPath: /root/.ssh
when I exec into a pod and check, I see the following:
~/.ssh # ls -ltr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 6 17:01 known_hosts -> ..data/known_hosts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 6 17:01 id_rsa.pub -> ..data/id_rsa.pub
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 6 17:01 id_rsa -> ..data/id_rsa
plus looking at the ~ level:
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 140 Oct 6 17:01 .ssh
so the directory isn't read only and the file permissions seem to have been ignored (even the default 0644 doesn't seem to be working).
Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
The .ssh directory has links to the actual files. Following the link shows the actual files have the correct permissions (read only for id_rsa).
I validated the ssh setup would actually work by execing into a container generated from that replication controller and doing a git clone via ssh to a repo holding that key.