HorizontalPodAutoscaler overwrites volume when releasing a Pod - docker

i have a question to ask you about kubernates. I need to configure a Horizontal Load Balancer on a service with Kubernates. Specifically in my yaml file I used the following kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler; the problem arises on the logic of uploading files to the volume: in a nutshell, when a pod is released, the data inside is overwritten, so with a new pod the volume is emptied. Am I wrong in configurations?
Specifically, I set the volume in the Dockerfile to build the corresponding image of the service launched with Kubernates.

it's not good idea to store data in Dockerimage however still what you can do is,
Copy data to docker image
Inside the Kubernetes POD create the PVC volume
Attach POD to PVC and use the volume mount
Use the init container to copy data from the docker path to the volume mount file path
Dockerfile
FROM python:latest
COPY data.csv ./tmp/
Kubernetes YAML
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: POD-name
spec:
replicas: 2
selector:
matchLabels:
app: test
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: test
spec:
initContainers:
- name: copy
image: busybox:1.28
command: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "cp /tmp/data.csv /data/data.csv"]
volumeMounts:
- name: pvc
mountPath: /data/
containers:
- name: test
image: image:tag
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
env:
- name: PORT
value: "8080"
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: "/data/"
name: pvc
volumes:
- name: pvc
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: pvc-claim

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Why I cannot read files from a shared PersistentVolumeClaim between containers in Kubernetes?

I have a docker image felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen that I build using docker-compose and I push it to docker-hub registry using travis-CI.
version: "3.7"
services:
other-images: ....
tpch-dbgen:
build: ../docker/tpch-dbgen
image: felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen
volumes:
- tpch-dbgen-data:/opt/tpch-dbgen/data/
- datarate:/tmp/
stdin_open: true
and this is the Dockerfile to build this image:
FROM gcc AS builder
RUN mkdir -p /opt
COPY ./generate-tpch-dbgen.sh /opt/generate-tpch-dbgen.sh
WORKDIR /opt
RUN chmod +x generate-tpch-dbgen.sh && ./generate-tpch-dbgen.sh
In the end, this scripts creates a directory /opt/tpch-dbgen/data/ with some files that I would like to read from another docker image that I am running on Kubernetes. Then I have a Flink image that I create to run into Kubernetes. This image starts 3 Flink Task Managers and one stream application that reads files from the image tpch-dbgen-data. I think that the right approach is to create a PersistentVolumeClaim so I can share the directory /opt/tpch-dbgen/data/ from image felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen to my flink image in Kubernetes. So, first I have this file to create the PersistentVolumeClaim:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
name: tpch-dbgen-data-pvc
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 200Mi
Then, I am creating an initContainers to launch the image felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen and after that launch my image felipeogutierrez/explore-flink:1.11.1-scala_2.12:
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: flink-taskmanager
spec:
replicas: 3
selector:
matchLabels:
app: flink
component: taskmanager
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: flink
component: taskmanager
spec:
initContainers:
- name: tpch-dbgen
image: felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen
#imagePullPolicy: Always
env:
command: ["ls"]
# command: ['sh', '-c', 'for i in 1 2 3; do echo "job-1 `date`" && sleep 5s; done;', 'ls']
volumeMounts:
- name: tpch-dbgen-data
mountPath: /opt/tpch-dbgen/data
containers:
- name: taskmanager
image: felipeogutierrez/explore-flink:1.11.1-scala_2.12
#imagePullPolicy: Always
env:
args: ["taskmanager"]
ports:
- containerPort: 6122
name: rpc
- containerPort: 6125
name: query-state
livenessProbe:
tcpSocket:
port: 6122
initialDelaySeconds: 30
periodSeconds: 60
volumeMounts:
- name: flink-config-volume
mountPath: /opt/flink/conf/
- name: tpch-dbgen-data
mountPath: /opt/tpch-dbgen/data
securityContext:
runAsUser: 9999 # refers to user _flink_ from official flink image, change if necessary
volumes:
- name: flink-config-volume
configMap:
name: flink-config
items:
- key: flink-conf.yaml
path: flink-conf.yaml
- key: log4j-console.properties
path: log4j-console.properties
- name: tpch-dbgen-data
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: tpch-dbgen-data-pvc
The Flink stream application is starting but it cannot read the files on the directory /opt/tpch-dbgen/data of the image felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen. I am getting the error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/tpch-dbgen/data/orders.tbl (No such file or directory). It is strange because when I try to go into the container felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen I can list the files. So I suppose there is something wrong on my Kubernetes configuration. Does anyone know to point what I am missing on the Kubernetes configuration files?
$ docker run -i -t felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen /bin/bash
root#10c0944a95f8:/opt# pwd
/opt
root#10c0944a95f8:/opt# ls tpch-dbgen/data/
customer.tbl dbgen dists.dss lineitem.tbl nation.tbl orders.tbl part.tbl partsupp.tbl region.tbl supplier.tbl
Also, when I list the logs of the container tpch-dbgen I can see the directory tpch-dbgen that I want to read. Although I cannot execute the command command: ["ls tpch-dbgen"] inside my Kubernetes config file.
$ kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
flink-jobmanager-n9nws 1/1 Running 2 17m
flink-taskmanager-777cb5bf77-ncdl4 1/1 Running 0 4m54s
flink-taskmanager-777cb5bf77-npmrx 1/1 Running 0 4m54s
flink-taskmanager-777cb5bf77-zc2nw 1/1 Running 0 4m54s
$ kubectl logs flink-taskmanager-777cb5bf77-ncdl4 tpch-dbgen
generate-tpch-dbgen.sh
tpch-dbgen
Docker has an unusual feature where, under some specific circumstances, it will populate a newly created volume from the image. You should not rely on this functionality, since it completely ignores updates in the underlying images and it doesn't work on Kubernetes.
In your Kubernetes setup, you create a new empty PersistentVolumeClaim, and then mount this over your actual data in both the init and main containers. As with all Unix mounts, this hides the data that was previously in that directory. Nothing causes data to get copied into that volume. This works the same way as every other kind of mount, except the Docker named-volume mount: you'll see the same behavior if you change your Compose setup to do a host bind mount, or if you play around with your local development system using a USB drive as a "volume".
You need to make your init container (or something else) explicitly copy data into the directory. For example:
initContainers:
- name: tpch-dbgen
image: felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen
command:
- /bin/cp
- -a
- /opt/tpch-dbgen/data
- /data
volumeMounts:
- name: tpch-dbgen-data
mountPath: /data # NOT the same path as in the image
If the main process modifies these files in place, you can make the command be more intelligent, or write a script into your image that only copies the individual files in if they don't exist yet.
It could potentially make more sense to have your image generate the data files at startup time, rather than at image-build time. That could look like:
FROM gcc
COPY ./generate-tpch-dbgen.sh /usr/local/bin/
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/generate-tpch-dbgen.sh
CMD ["generate-tpch-dbgen.sh"]
Then in your init container, you can run the default command (the generate script) with the working directory set to the volume directory
initContainers:
- name: tpch-dbgen
image: felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen
volumeMounts:
- name: tpch-dbgen-data
mountPath: /opt/tpch-dbgen/data # or anywhere really
workingDir: /opt/tpch-dbgen/data # matching mountPath
I got to run the PersistentVolumeClaim and share it between pods. Basically I had to use a subPath property which I learned from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/43404857/2096986 and I am using a simple Job that I learned from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/64023672/2096986. The final results is below:
The Dockerfile:
FROM gcc AS builder
RUN mkdir -p /opt
COPY ./generate-tpch-dbgen.sh /opt/generate-tpch-dbgen.sh
WORKDIR /opt
RUN chmod +x /opt/generate-tpch-dbgen.sh
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/sh","/opt/generate-tpch-dbgen.sh"]
and the script generate-tpch-dbgen.sh has to have this line in the end sleep infinity & wait to not finalize. The PersistentVolumeClaim is the same of the question. Then I create a Job with the subPath property.
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
name: tpch-dbgen-job
spec:
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: flink
component: tpch-dbgen
spec:
restartPolicy: OnFailure
volumes:
- name: tpch-dbgen-data
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: tpch-dbgen-data-pvc
containers:
- name: tpch-dbgen
image: felipeogutierrez/tpch-dbgen
imagePullPolicy: Always
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /opt/tpch-dbgen/data
name: tpch-dbgen-data
subPath: data
and I use it on the other deployment also with the subPath property.
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: flink-taskmanager
spec:
replicas: 3
selector:
matchLabels:
app: flink
component: taskmanager
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: flink
component: taskmanager
spec:
volumes:
- name: flink-config-volume
configMap:
name: flink-config
items:
- key: flink-conf.yaml
path: flink-conf.yaml
- key: log4j-console.properties
path: log4j-console.properties
- name: tpch-dbgen-data
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: tpch-dbgen-data-pvc
containers:
- name: taskmanager
image: felipeogutierrez/explore-flink:1.11.1-scala_2.12
imagePullPolicy: Always
env:
args: ["taskmanager"]
ports:
- containerPort: 6122
name: rpc
- containerPort: 6125
name: query-state
livenessProbe:
tcpSocket:
port: 6122
initialDelaySeconds: 30
periodSeconds: 60
volumeMounts:
- name: flink-config-volume
mountPath: /opt/flink/conf/
- name: tpch-dbgen-data
mountPath: /opt/tpch-dbgen/data
subPath: data
securityContext:
runAsUser: 9999 # refers to user _flink_ from official flink image, change if necessary
Maybe the issue is the accessMode you set on your PVC. ReadWriteOnce means it can only be mounted by one POD.
See here for Details.
You could try to use ReadWriteMany.
Your generate-tpch-dbgen.sh script is executed while building the docker image resulting those files in /opt/tpch-dbgen/data directory. So, when you run the image, you can see those files.
But the problem with k8s pvc, when you mount the volume (initially empty) to your containers, it replaces the /opt/tpch-dbgen/data directory along with the files in it.
Solution:
Don't execute the generate-tpch-dbgen.sh while building the docker image, rather execute it in the runtime. Then, the files will be created in the shared pv from the init container.
Something like below:
FROM gcc AS builder
RUN mkdir -p /opt
COPY ./generate-tpch-dbgen.sh /opt/generate-tpch-dbgen.sh
RUN chmod +x /opt/generate-tpch-dbgen.sh
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/sh","/opt/generate-tpch-dbgen.sh"]

Copy files into kubernetes pod with deployment.yaml

I have containerized microservice built with Java. This application uses the default /config-volume directory when it searches for property files.
Previously I manually deployed via Dockerfile, and now I'm looking to automate this process with Kubernetes.
The container image starts the microservice immediately so I need to add properties to the config-volume folder immediately. I accomplished this in Docker with this simple Dockerfile:
FROM ########.amazon.ecr.url.us-north-1.amazonaws.com/company/image-name:1.0.0
RUN mkdir /config-volume
COPY path/to/my.properties /config-volume
I'm trying to replicate this type of behavior in a kubernetes deployment.yaml but I have found no way to do it.
I've tried performing a kubectl cp command immediately after applying the deployment and it sometimes works, but it can result in a race condition which cause the microservice to fail at startup.
(I've redacted unnecessary parts)
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: my-service
spec:
replicas: 1
template:
spec:
containers:
- env:
image: ########.amazon.ecr.url.us-north-1.amazonaws.com/company/image-name:1.0.0
name: my-service
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /config-volume
name: config-volume
volumes:
- name: config-volume
emptyDir: {}
status: {}
Is there a way to copy files into a volume inside the deployment.yaml?
You are trying to emulate a ConfigMap using volumes. Instead, put your configuration into a ConfigMap, and mount that to your deployments. The documentation is there:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/
Once you have your configuration as a ConfigMap, mount it using something like this:
...
containers:
- name: mycontainer
volumeMounts:
- name: config-volume
mountPath: /config-volume
volumes:
- name: config-volume
configMap:
name: nameOfConfigMap

How to mount volume from my container in kubenetes

I want to mount directory from SourceContaner to ServerContainer.
ServerContainer:
FROM php:7.2-apache
RUN a2enmod rewrite
# /var/www/html is apache document root.
SourceContaner:
FROM alpine:3.7
# Copy local code to the container image.
COPY ./my_src /var/www/html/my_src
VOLUME /var/www/html/my_src
And, yaml is below.
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: test
spec:
...snip...
spec:
containers:
- name: server-container
image: "Server Container image"
ports:
...snip...
volumeMounts:
- name: src-volume
mountPath: /var/www/html/my_src
- name: src-container
image: "Source Container Image"
volumes:
- name: src-volume
hostPath:
path: /var/www/html/my_src
But Source Container "CrashLoopBackOff" occured.
and nothing log is output.
This is not a feature of Kubernetes. There is an old FlexVolume plugin that implements the same behavior as Docker, but it isn’t recommended. You can use an initContainer to copy from the data container into a volume like an emptyDir.

How do I copy a Kubernetes configmap to a write enabled area of a pod?

I am trying to deploy a redis sentinel deployment in Kubernetes. I have accomplished that but want to use ConfigMaps to allow us to change the IP address of the master in the sentinel.conf file. I started this but redis cant write to the config file because the mount point for configMaps are readOnly.
I was hoping to run an init container and copy the redis conf to a different dir just in the pod. But the init container couldn't find the conf file.
What are my options? Init Container? Something other than ConfigMap?
apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: redis-sentinel
spec:
replicas: 3
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: redis-sentinel
spec:
hostNetwork: true
containers:
- name: redis-sentinel
image: IP/redis-sentinel
ports:
- containerPort: 63790
- containerPort: 26379
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /redis-master-data
name: data
- mountPath: /usr/local/etc/redis/conf
name: config
volumes:
- name: data
emptyDir: {}
- name: config
configMap:
name: sentinel-redis-config
items:
- key: redis-config-sentinel
path: sentinel.conf
According to #P Ekambaram proposal, you can try this one:
apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: redis-sentinel
spec:
replicas: 3
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: redis-sentinel
spec:
hostNetwork: true
containers:
- name: redis-sentinel
image: redis:5.0.4
ports:
- containerPort: 63790
- containerPort: 26379
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /redis-master-data
name: data
- mountPath: /usr/local/etc/redis/conf
name: config
initContainers:
- name: copy
image: redis:5.0.4
command: ["bash", "-c", "cp /redis-master/redis.conf /redis-master-data/"]
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /redis-master
name: config
- mountPath: /redis-master-data
name: data
volumes:
- name: data
emptyDir: {}
- name: config
configMap:
name: example-redis-config
items:
- key: redis-config
path: redis.conf
In this example initContainer copy the file from ConfigMap into writable dir.
Note:
An emptyDir volume is first created when a Pod is assigned to a Node, and exists as long as that Pod is running on that node. As the name says, it is initially empty. Containers in the Pod can all read and write the same files in the emptyDir volume, though that volume can be mounted at the same or different paths in each Container. When a Pod is removed from a node for any reason, the data in the emptyDir is deleted forever.
Create a startup script. In that copy the configMap file that is mounted in a volume to writable location. Then run the container process.

Store/Share data with a container in Kubernetes

I've dockerized a python project that requires the use of several CSVs (~2gb). In order to keep image size down I didn't include the CSVs in the build, instead opting to give the running container the data from a directory outside the container through a volume. Locally, when running through docker, I can just do
docker run -v ~/local/path/:/container/path my-image:latest
This works, but I'm not sure how to go about doing this in Kubernetes. I've been reading the documentation and am confused by the number of volume types, where the actual CSVs should be stored, etc.
Based on the information about the project that I've provided, is there an obvious solution?
If you'd like to replicate that exact behavior from Docker the most common way to do it is to use hostPath. Something like this:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: test-pd
spec:
containers:
- image: my-image:latest
name: my-container
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /container/path
name: test-volume
volumes:
- name: test-volume
hostPath:
path: /usr/local/path
type: Directory
Here is a typical example of sharing between containers. You can keep your data in a separate container and code in a different container.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/communicate-containers-same-pod-shared-volume/
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: two-containers
spec:
restartPolicy: Never
volumes:
- name: shared-data
emptyDir: {}
containers:
- name: nginx-container
image: nginx
volumeMounts:
- name: shared-data
mountPath: /usr/share/nginx/html
- name: debian-container
image: debian
volumeMounts:
- name: shared-data
mountPath: /pod-data
command: ["/bin/sh"]
args: ["-c", "echo Hello from the debian container > /pod-data/index.html"]
Hope it helps.

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