How to mount PostgreSQL data directory in Kubernetes?

Question

I'm using minikube to run kubernetes locally. My local k8s have two pods which one of them is PostgreSQL and another one is my own app. I've mounted a PersistentVolume and PersistentVolumeClaim in order to make a stateful pod for PostgreSQL:

kind: PersistentVolume
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: postgres-pv-volume
  labels:
    type: local
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  capacity:
    storage: 10Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: "/data/psql"
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: postgres-pv-claim
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 10Gi

Here is PostgreSQL deployment yaml file:

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: postgres
spec:
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        name: postgres
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: postgres
        imagePullPolicy: Never
        image: postgres:9.6
        ports:
        - name: postgres
          containerPort: 5432
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql
          name: postgres-persistent-storage
      volumes:
      - name: postgres-persistent-storage
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: postgres-pv-claim

The problem is that PostgreSQL service doesn't start and this error occurs when I run its pod:

Error: /var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main is not accessible; please fix the directory permissions (/var/lib/postgresql/9.6/ should be world readable)
No PostgreSQL clusters exist; see "man pg_createcluster" ... (warning).

I've checked inside of PostgreSQL pod and I found that /var/lib/postgresql is empty, just like /data/psql In minikube host. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Change:

volumeMounts:
  - mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql

to

volumeMounts:
  - mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data

With the wrong mountPoint postgres executables were overridden.

I attach an image with the data I see from inside the pod (on the left) and from inside minikube space (on the right, the little shell from virtualbox).