Helm install of MariaDB on bare metal Kubernetes: “mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/bitnami/mariadb/data’: Permission denied”

Installing the MariaDB chart with Helm on Kubernetes, I ran into issues with permissions on the folder that I created for the PersistentVolume: INFO ==> ** Starting MariaDB setup ** INFO ==> Validating settings in MYSQL_/MARIADB_ env vars.. INFO ==> Initializing mariadb database… mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/bitnami/mariadb/data’: Permission denied INFO ==> Stopping mariadb… Per …

AWS EKS: Kubernetes clusters provisioned with CloudFormation templates

AWS was the last of the major cloud providers to offer a managed Kubernetes service (GA announced June this year). All the others have already had offerings up and available for some time (Google Kubernetes Engine – GKE, Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service – AKS, IBM Cloud Kuberenetes Service, even Oracle Cloud have their Container Engine …