Question

Cannot create block storage volume

I’m following:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/add-volumes/

But both the pod I create and the pvc remain in pending state.

When I run kubectl describe pod elasticsearch-basic-0 (I’m following https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-elasticsearch-fluentd-and-kibana-efk-logging-stack-on-kubernetes tutorial as well to add elastic search) I get:

Events:
  Type     Reason             Age                   From                Message
  ----     ------             ----                  ----                -------
  Normal   NotTriggerScaleUp  3m56s (x11 over 14m)  cluster-autoscaler  pod didn't trigger scale-up:
  Warning  FailedScheduling   1s (x15 over 14m)     default-scheduler   0/1 nodes are available: 1 pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims.

According to the first tutorial DO should automatically create a block storage volume but this does not seem to be happening. Am I missing something? Thanks.


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So the only way I was able to get this to work was to manually create a PersistentVolume:

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: elasticsearch-volume
  labels:
    type: local
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  capacity:
    storage: 100M
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: "/data/elasticsearch"

Any ideas why DO isn’t doing this automatically as suggested in the docs, perhaps my DO config is note correct because it ideally I would like to store my persistent data directly to DOs block storage.

In fact what is the difference between creating a manual storage vs using do-block-storage. Thanks.

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