Mount Hostpath volume as non root user

General Discussions
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How can i mount a volume create from hostpath to a pod, so that the pod running as non-root user can perform read-write operations on that volume. I don’t want to user one more init container to do this thing, as it increases the container boot time.

I tried setting fsgroup and runasuser to uid of non root user, but it is not working for volumes created from hostpath.

Cluster information:

Kubernetes version:
Cloud being used: AWS EKS
Installation method: AWS Managed
Host OS: Amazon linux

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I’m having the same issue, with hostPath to be specific. any idea how to fix this?

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You can use local persistent volume. Which is similar to hostpath with some additional features you can then configure fsgroup to set user acces permission.

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/04/04/kubernetes-1.14-local-persistent-volumes-ga/