how to create helm chart of postgres with pvc

Question

I would like to create a helm chart for PostgreSQL with PVC (persistent volume claim).

I\'ve looked at trying katacoda https://www.katacoda.com/courses/kubernetes/helm-pa

Answer 1

As we can read from PostgreSQL helm charts docs it can be used with following parameters:

+----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+---------------+
|         Parameter          |                           Description                           |    Default    |
+----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+---------------+
| persistence.enabled        | Enable data persistence                                         | true          |
| persistence.existingClaim  | Use a existing PVC which must be created manually before bound  | nil           |
| persistence.storageClass   | Specify the storageClass used to provision the volume           | nil           |
| persistence.mountPath      | Path to mount data volume at                                    | nil           |
| persistence.accessMode     | Access mode of data volume                                      | ReadWriteOnce |
| persistence.size           | Size of data volume                                             | 8Gi           |
| persistence.annotations    | Persistent Volume Claim annotations                             | {}            |
+----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+---------------+

Persistence

The data is persisted by default using PVC templates in the PostgreSQL statefulset. You can disable the persistence setting the persistence.enabled parameter to false. A default StorageClass is needed in the Kubernetes cluster to dynamically provision the volumes. Specify another StorageClass in the persistence.storageClass or set persistence.existingClaim if you have already existing persistent volumes to use.

This means you just need to create your own Persistent Volume which can for example look like this:

pv.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: task-pv-volume
  labels:
    type: local
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  capacity:
    storage: 10Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: "/mnt/data"

pvc.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: task-pv-claim
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 8Gi

Once those are deployed and bounded you can install the PostgreSQL chart:

helm install my-release bitnami/postgresql --set persistence.existingClaim=task-pv-claim