<p>I'm trying to run postgres using <a href="https://kubedb.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">kubedb</a> on minikube where I mount my data from a local directory (located on my Mac), when the pod runs the I don't get the expected behaviour, two things happen:
One is obviously the mount isn't there, and second I see the error <code>pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims</code></p>

<p>First, here are my yaml file:</p>

<pre><code>apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: adminvol
  namespace: demo
  labels:
    release: development
spec:
  capacity:
    storage: 2Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
  hostPath:
    path: /Users/myusername/local_docker_poc/admin/lib/postgresql/data
</code></pre>

<pre><code>kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  namespace: demo
  name: adminpvc
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 2Gi
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      release: development
</code></pre>

<pre><code>apiVersion: kubedb.com/v1alpha1
kind: Postgres
metadata:
  name: quick-postgres
  namespace: demo
spec:
  version: "10.2-v2"
  storageType: Durable
  storage:
    accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
    resources:
      requests:
        storage: 1Gi
  volumeMounts:
    - mountPath: /busy
      name: naim
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: adminpvc
  terminationPolicy: WipeOut
</code></pre>

<p>According to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52668938/pod-has-unbound-persistentvolumeclaims">this</a> which is reflected in the answer below, I've removed the storageClass from all my yaml files.</p>

<p>The describe pod looks like this:</p>

<pre><code>Name:               quick-postgres-0
Namespace:          demo
Priority:           0
PriorityClassName:  &lt;none&gt;
Node:               minikube/10.0.2.15
Start Time:         Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:18:44 +0300
Labels:             controller-revision-hash=quick-postgres-5d5bcc4698
                    kubedb.com/kind=Postgres
                    kubedb.com/name=quick-postgres
                    kubedb.com/role=primary
                    statefulset.kubernetes.io/pod-name=quick-postgres-0
Annotations:        &lt;none&gt;
Status:             Running
IP:                 172.17.0.7
Controlled By:      StatefulSet/quick-postgres
Containers:
  postgres:
    Container ID:  docker://6bd0946f8197ddf1faf7b52ad0da36810cceff4abb53447679649f1d0dba3c5c
    Image:         kubedb/postgres:10.2-v3
    Image ID:      docker-pullable://kubedb/postgres@sha256:9656942b2322a88d4117f5bfda26ee34d795cd631285d307b55f101c2f2cb8c8
    Port:          5432/TCP
    Host Port:     0/TCP
    Args:
      leader_election
      --enable-analytics=true
      --logtostderr=true
      --alsologtostderr=false
      --v=3
      --stderrthreshold=0
    State:          Running
      Started:      Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:18:45 +0300
    Ready:          True
    Restart Count:  0
    Environment:
      APPSCODE_ANALYTICS_CLIENT_ID:  90b12fedfef2068a5f608219d5e7904a
      NAMESPACE:                     demo (v1:metadata.namespace)
      PRIMARY_HOST:                  quick-postgres
      POSTGRES_USER:                 &lt;set to the key 'POSTGRES_USER' in secret 'quick-postgres-auth'&gt;      Optional: false
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD:             &lt;set to the key 'POSTGRES_PASSWORD' in secret 'quick-postgres-auth'&gt;  Optional: false
      STANDBY:                       warm
      STREAMING:                     asynchronous
      LEASE_DURATION:                15
      RENEW_DEADLINE:                10
      RETRY_PERIOD:                  2
    Mounts:
      /dev/shm from shared-memory (rw)
      /var/pv from data (rw)
      /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from quick-postgres-token-48rkd (ro)
Conditions:
  Type              Status
  Initialized       True
  Ready             True
  ContainersReady   True
  PodScheduled      True
Volumes:
  data:
    Type:       PersistentVolumeClaim (a reference to a PersistentVolumeClaim in the same namespace)
    ClaimName:  data-quick-postgres-0
    ReadOnly:   false
  shared-memory:
    Type:       EmptyDir (a temporary directory that shares a pod's lifetime)
    Medium:     Memory
    SizeLimit:  &lt;unset&gt;
  quick-postgres-token-48rkd:
    Type:        Secret (a volume populated by a Secret)
    SecretName:  quick-postgres-token-48rkd
    Optional:    false
QoS Class:       BestEffort
Node-Selectors:  &lt;none&gt;
Tolerations:     node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute for 300s
                 node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute for 300s
Events:
  Type     Reason            Age   From               Message
  ----     ------            ----  ----               -------
  Warning  FailedScheduling  39s   default-scheduler  pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims
  Normal   Scheduled         39s   default-scheduler  Successfully assigned demo/quick-postgres-0 to minikube
  Normal   Pulled            38s   kubelet, minikube  Container image "kubedb/postgres:10.2-v3" already present on machine
  Normal   Created           38s   kubelet, minikube  Created container
  Normal   Started           38s   kubelet, minikube  Started container
</code></pre>

<p>I followed the official manual on how to mount a pvc <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-persistent-volume-storage/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>
For debug, I used the same pv and pvc to mount a simple busybox container and it worked fine, that is I can see the mount with data in it:</p>

<pre><code>apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: busybox
  namespace: demo
spec:
  containers:
    - name: busybox
      image: busybox
      command:
        - sleep
        - "3600"
      volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /busy
          name: adminpvc
  volumes:
    - name: adminpvc
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: adminpvc
</code></pre>

<p>The only difference with my own pod and that of the KubeDB (which to my understanding there's a statefulset behind it) is that I kept the storageClass in the PV and PVC ! if I remove the storage class, I will see the mount point inside the container but it's empty and has no data</p>

<pre><code>Remove the storageClass-line from the PersistentVolume
</code></pre>

<p>In minikube try something like this :</p>

<p>here is the example for elasticsearch</p>

<pre><code>apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: elasticsearch
spec:
  capacity:
    storage: 400Mi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: "/data/elasticsearch/"
</code></pre>

<p>For more details you can also check this out :
<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52668938/pod-has-unbound-persistentvolumeclaims">pod has unbound PersistentVolumeClaims</a></p>

<p><strong>EDIT</strong> :</p>

<p>check available <code>storageclasses</code> </p>

<pre><code>kubectl get storageclass
</code></pre>

<p>For PV volume </p>

<pre><code>kind: PersistentVolume
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: postgres-pv
  labels:
    type: local
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  capacity:
    storage: 2Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: /data/postgres-pv
</code></pre>

<p>PVC file </p>

<pre><code>kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: postgres-pvc
  labels:
    type: local
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 2Gi
  volumeName: postgres-pv
</code></pre>
