How do I mount an existing Azure Storage FileShare to a Pod running on AKS

Question

Hello, I'm looking for an example of mounting an existing Azure File Share to a pod running on AKS. I was able to do this previously with YAML as below

      volumes:
      - azureFile:
          secretName: kube-storage-secret
          shareName: my-share
        name: my-volume-name

However, it's unclear if this has been deprecated and if I should use PV, PVC and StorageClasses. If I were to do this using a PersistantVoloumeClaim, how can I do this?

The example on the documentation here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-csi-files-storage-provision is only talking about creating a new share and not how to use an existing share. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello @saminda , In the same document , you can follow below sections:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-csi-files-storage-provision#create-a-kubernetes-secret and example YAML file

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-csi-files-storage-provision#mount-file-share-as-an-inline-volume

I tried those steps to mount an existing azurefileshare by creating sample pod. Mainly you are looking for 3 steps:

Step1:- Get the storage account name & Storage Account key

Step2:- Create the secret

kubectl create secret generic azure-secret --from-literal=azurestorageaccountname=storageaccountname--from-literal=azurestorageaccountkey=storageaccountkey

Step3:-

Use the sample POD YAML file https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-csi-files-storage-provision#mount-file-share-as-an-inline-volume

use the section:

 volumes:
  - name: azure
    csi:
      driver: file.csi.azure.com
      readOnly: false
      volumeAttributes:
        secretName: azure-secret  # required
        shareName: aksshare  # required
        mountOptions: "dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,cache=strict,actimeo=30,nosharesock"  # optional