Zookeeper doesn't deploy into virtualbox minikube

[aschepis]

Virtualbox appears to have an issue with mounting hostPath PVs in a writeable/accessible state. As a result, zookeeper fails to get started in minikube

I hacked my way around it by using emptyDir: {} for my datadir. not a great solution. I'm happy to open PR to fix if I can get some guidance on an approach that would be acceptable.

Startup logs:

2017-04-28T13:30:58.695403610Z ZK_MAX_CLIENT_CNXNS=60
2017-04-28T13:30:58.696127763Z ZK_MIN_SESSION_TIMEOUT= 4000
2017-04-28T13:30:58.696131577Z ZK_MAX_SESSION_TIMEOUT= 40000
2017-04-28T13:30:58.696134032Z ZK_HEAP_SIZE=256m
2017-04-28T13:30:58.696136340Z ZK_SNAP_RETAIN_COUNT=3
2017-04-28T13:30:58.696138699Z ZK_PURGE_INTERVAL=1
2017-04-28T13:30:58.696141223Z ENSEMBLE
2017-04-28T13:30:58.696143672Z server.1=zk-kafka-zookeeper-0.hs-zk-kafka-zookeeper.default.svc.cluster.local:2888:3888
2017-04-28T13:30:58.696146303Z Enviorment validation successful
2017-04-28T13:30:58.696158215Z Creating ZooKeeper configuration
2017-04-28T13:30:58.696161196Z Wrote ZooKeeper configuration file to /opt/zookeeper/conf/zoo.cfg
2017-04-28T13:30:58.699766539Z Creating ZooKeeper log4j configuration
2017-04-28T13:30:58.699829100Z Wrote log4j configuration to /opt/zookeeper/conf/log4j.properties
2017-04-28T13:30:58.699880471Z Creating ZooKeeper data directories and setting permissions
2017-04-28T13:30:58.701553986Z mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/zookeeper': Permission denied
2017-04-28T13:30:58.704557792Z chown: cannot access '/var/lib/zookeeper/data': Permission denied
2017-04-28T13:30:58.709345143Z mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/zookeeper': Permission denied
2017-04-28T13:30:58.710343958Z chown: cannot access '/var/lib/zookeeper/log': Permission denied
2017-04-28T13:30:58.710618048Z /usr/bin/zkGenConfig.sh: line 125: /var/lib/zookeeper/data/myid: Permission denied
2017-04-28T13:30:58.710661909Z Created ZooKeeper data directories and set permissions in /var/lib/zookeeper/data
2017-04-28T13:30:58.711457677Z Creating JVM configuration file
2017-04-28T13:30:58.711466891Z Wrote JVM configuration to /opt/zookeeper/conf/java.env
2017-04-28T13:30:58.717536771Z ZooKeeper JMX enabled by default
2017-04-28T13:30:58.718452575Z Using config: /usr/bin/../etc/zookeeper/zoo.cfg
2017-04-28T13:30:58.721629296Z mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/zookeeper': Permission denied

[gducharme]

I'm having a similar issue, but how have you confirmed that this is a VirtualBox bug? Have you tried other vm driver?

[lachie83]

@aschepis can you please log this issue against minikube? I believe the it should use host path PVs.

[aschepis]

you can close this issue. it is not specific to the chart

[francisu]

I'm hitting this problem too, and I can't figure out where to put the emptyDir: {} to hack it. Also, I can't find a corresponding issue in minikube, was one logged?

[francisu]

This is the relevant minikube issue, though the underlying problem appears to be in k8s: kubernetes/minikube#956

[francisu]

See also: kubernetes/kubernetes#2630

[francisu]

Another way to make this work is to remove the "runAsUser", or change to runAsUser: 0 in the ss.yaml file.

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