How to mount entire directory in Kubernetes using configmap? - docker

Question

I want to be able to mount an unknown number of config files in /etc/configs
I have added some files to the configmap using:
kubectl create configmap etc-configs --from-file=/tmp/etc-config
The number of files and file names are never going to be known and I would like to recreate the configmap and the folder in the Kubernetes container should be updated after sync interval.
I have tried to mount this but I'm not able to do so, the folder is always empty but I have data in the configmap.
bofh$ kubectl describe configmap etc-configs
Name: etc-configs
Namespace: default
Labels: <none>
Annotations: <none>
Data
====
file1.conf:
----
{
... trunkated ...
}
file2.conf:
----
{
... trunkated ...
}
file3.conf:
----
{
... trunkated ...
}
Events: <none>
I'm using this one in the container volumeMounts:
- name: etc-configs
mountPath: /etc/configs
And this is the volumes:
- name: etc-configs
configMap:
name: etc-configs
I can mount individual items but not an entire directory.
Any suggestions about how to solve this?

Answer 1

You can mount the ConfigMap as a special volume into your container.
In this case, the mount folder will show each of the keys as a file in the mount folder and the files will have the map values as content.
From the Kubernetes documentation:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: dapi-test-pod
spec:
containers:
- name: test-container
image: k8s.gcr.io/busybox
...
volumeMounts:
- name: config-volume
mountPath: /etc/config
volumes:
- name: config-volume
configMap:
# Provide the name of the ConfigMap containing the files you want
# to add to the container
name: special-config

Answer 2

I'm feeling really stupid now.
Sorry, My fault.
The Docker container did not start so I was manually staring it using docker run -it --entrypoint='/bin/bash' and I could not see any files from the configMap.
This does not work since docker don't know anything about my deployment until Kubernetes starts it.
The docker image was failing and the Kubernetes config was correct all the time.
I was debugging it wrong.

Answer 3

With your config, you're going to mount each file listed in your configmap.
If you need to mount all file in a folder, you shouldn't use configmap, but a persistenceVolume and persistenceVolumeClaims:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: pv-volume-jenkins
spec:
capacity:
storage: 50Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
hostPath:
path: "/data/pv-jenkins"
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
name: pv-claim-jenkins
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
storageClassName: ""
resources:
requests:
storage: 50Gi
In your deployment.yml:
volumeMounts:
- name: jenkins-persistent-storage
mountPath: /data
volumes:
- name: jenkins-persistent-storage
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: pv-claim-jenkins
You can also use the following:
kubectl create configmap my-config --from-file=/etc/configs
to create the config map with all files in that folder.
Hope this helps.