Adding persistent volumes to a microservice

You might want to use a persistent volume for your microservice to persist data. For example, you might want to run mysql or ghost blog and persist the data.

By default, microservices that you create are not persistent. Any file that you save in the filesystem inside your code is not persisted. If the microservice restarts, the files/data would get destroyed with the container.

To persist any data, you should use persistent volumes. This can be done in pro-tier clusters currently.

To use persistent volumes:

  1. Create a new volume in a pro-tier cluster.
  2. Configure your microservice’s k8s.yaml to use the volume.

Create a new volume

Edit your clusters.yaml and add a new volume of your chosen size.

Example:

version: v1
provider: digital-ocean
region: sfo2
nodes:
- type: s-2vcpu-4gb
  labels:
    app: postgres
volumes:
- name: postgres
  size: 10
- name: filestore
  size: 10
- name: sessionstore
  size: 2
# custom volume
- name: myvolume
  size: 10

Apply this config to your cluster by running the command:

$ hasura cluster upgrade -c <cluster-alias>

Use the volume in your microservice

You can configure persistent volumes for a microservice by editing the k8s.yaml file found at /microservices/<my-microservice>/k8s.yaml.

Let’s say you need to use myvolume, created in the previous step, in a ghost blog microservice.

The k8s.yaml for such a configuration would look like the following:

   apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
   kind: Deployment
   metadata:
     labels:
       app: '{{ microservice.name }}'
       hasuraService: custom
     name: '{{ microservice.name }}'
     namespace: '{{ cluster.metadata.namespaces.user }}'
   spec:
     replicas: 1
     template:
       metadata:
         creationTimestamp: null
         labels:
           app: '{{ microservice.name }}'
       spec:
         containers:
         - image: ghost:1-alpine
           imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
           name: '{{ microservice.name }}'
           ports:
           - containerPort: 2368
             protocol: TCP
           volumeMounts:
             - name: myvolume
               mountPath: /var/lib/ghost/content
         volumes:
         - {{ cluster.metadata.volumes.myvolume | json }}

These are the keys that have to be provided:

  • volumeMounts:
    • mountPath : is the path inside your container where you want the data to be persisted
    • name : is the name of the volume you created in clusters.yaml.
  • volumes : a template variable of the form cluster.metadata.volumes.<volume-name>. In this case, cluster.metadata.volumes.myvolume.

To apply the changes, commit the k8s.yaml file and git push hasura master to deploy.

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