We have a docker image that is processing some files on a samba share.
For this we created a cifs share which is mounted to /mnt/dfs and files can be accessed in the container with:
docker run -v /mnt/dfs/project1:/workspace image
Now what I was aked to do is get the container into k8s and to acces a cifs share from a pod a cifs Volume driver usiong FlexVolume can be used. That's where some questions pop up.
I installed this repo as a daemonset
https://k8scifsvol.juliohm.com.br/
and it's up and running.
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
name: cifs-volumedriver-installer
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: cifs-volumedriver-installer
template:
metadata:
name: cifs-volumedriver-installer
labels:
app: cifs-volumedriver-installer
spec:
containers:
- image: juliohm/kubernetes-cifs-volumedriver-installer:2.4
name: flex-deploy
imagePullPolicy: Always
securityContext:
privileged: true
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /flexmnt
name: flexvolume-mount
volumes:
- name: flexvolume-mount
hostPath:
path: /usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec/
Next thing to do is add a PeristentVolume, but that needs a capacity, 1Gi in the example. Does this mean that we lose all data on the smb server? Why should there be a capacity for an already existing server?
Also, how can we access a subdirectory of the mount /mnt/dfs from within the pod? So how to access data from /mnt/dfs/project1 in the pod?
Do we even need a PV? Could the pod just read from the host's mounted share?
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: mycifspv
spec:
capacity:
storage: 1Gi
flexVolume:
driver: juliohm/cifs
options:
opts: sec=ntlm,uid=1000
server: my-cifs-host
share: /MySharedDirectory
secretRef:
name: my-secret
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
Managed to get it working with the fstab/cifs plugin.
Copy its cifs script to /usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec and give it execute permissions. Also restart kubelet on all nodes.
Then added
containers:
- name: pablo
image: "10.203.32.80:5000/pablo"
volumeMounts:
- name: dfs
mountPath: /data
volumes:
- name: dfs
flexVolume:
driver: "fstab/cifs"
fsType: "cifs"
secretRef:
name: "cifs-secret"
options:
networkPath: "//dfs/dir"
mountOptions: "dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0644,noperm"
Now there is the /data mount inside the container pointing to //dfs/dir