ReadWriteMany storage on Google Kubernetes Engine for StatefulSets - elasticsearch

Question

I used NFS for to mount a ReadWriteMany storage on a deployment on Google Kubernetes Engine as described in the following link-
https://medium.com/platformer-blog/nfs-persistent-volumes-with-kubernetes-a-case-study-ce1ed6e2c266
However my particular use case(elasticsearch production cluster- for snapshots) requires mounting the ReadWriteMany volume on a stateful set.
On using the NFS volume created previously for stateful sets, the volumes are not provisioned for the different replicas of the stateful set.
Is there any way to overcome this or any other approach I can use?

Answer 1

The guide makes a small mistake depending on how you follow it. The [ClusterIP] defined in the persistent volume should be "nfs-server.default..." instead of "nfs-service.default...". "nfs-server" is what is used in the service definition.
Below is a very minimal setup I used for a statefulset. I deployed the first 3 files from the tutorial to create the PV & PVC, then used the below yaml in place of the busybox bonus yaml the author included. This deployed successfully. Let me know if you have troubles.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: stateful-service
spec:
ports:
- port: 80
name: web
clusterIP: None
selector:
app: thestate
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
metadata:
name: thestate
labels:
app: thestate
kind: StatefulSet
spec:
serviceName: stateful-service
replicas: 3
selector:
matchLabels:
app: thestate
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: thestate
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx:1.8
volumeMounts:
- name: my-pvc-nfs
mountPath: /mnt
ports:
- containerPort: 80
name: web
volumes:
- name: my-pvc-nfs
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: nfs