Traefik Kubernetes with persistent volume for ssl and initContainer

Traefik Traefik v2
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Hi,

I'm trying to implement ssl certs on persistent volume in Traefik (it is intalled in the traefik namespace).
Added the persitence, ge the following error:
"unable to get ACME account: open /ssl-certs/acme-cloudflare.json: permission denied"

I try to enable an initContainer for managing the certs permisisons, but it keeps staying in the "Back-off restarting failed container"

Pertinent values.yaml parts:

deployment:
  additionalContainers: []
  additionalVolumes: []
  annotations: {}
  enabled: true
  imagePullSecrets: []
  initContainers:
    - name: volume-permissions
      image: busybox:1.31.1
      command: ["sh", "-c", "chmod -Rv 600 /ssl-certs/*"]
      volumeMounts:
        - name: ssl-certs
          mountPath: /ssl-certs
  kind: Deployment
  labels: {}
  minReadySeconds: 0
  podAnnotations: {}
  podLabels: {}
  replicas: 1
  shareProcessNamespace: true
  terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 60

persistence:
  accessMode: ReadWriteMany
  annotations: {}
  enabled: true
  name: ssl-certs
  path: /ssl-certs
  size: 128Mi
  existingClaim: traefik-ssl-claim

How can I properly set the initContainer to run?
Thanks,
Nicola

2

Have you tried a describe on the deployment, or events to see if it offers you more info on what the underlying error is?

Does your certs file already exist? One issue I had encountered previously was that the file does not initially exist within the volume and so the chmod command fails. See k3s-traefik-v2-kubernetes-crd/005-deployment.yaml at master · sleighzy/k3s-traefik-v2-kubernetes-crd · GitHub for a solution to this.

3

Hi,

Sorry for being late, don't remember if it was due to a permission problem on the shared gluster cluster I was using for PVs or anything, I was able to run it without the init pod without any flaws, so kept it without the init pod.
Will try your solution, thank you very much!

4

I will keep it here if someone has the same issue (like I had). According to this: acme resolver not working with persistence enabled · Issue #396 · traefik/traefik-helm-chart · GitHub, the solution is:

  command: 
    [
      "sh",
      "-c",
      "touch /data/acme.json; chown 65532 /data/acme.json; chmod -v 600 /data/acme.json",
    ]
  securityContext:
    runAsNonRoot: false
    runAsGroup: 0
    runAsUser: 0

Where you create the file as root user, and change the ownership to 65532 after that.

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