<p>I am trying to run ActiveMQ in Kubernetes.  I want to keep the queues even after the pod is terminated and recreated.  So far I got the queues to stay even after pod deletion and recreation.  But, there is a catch, it seems to be storing the list of queues one previous.  </p>

<p>Ex: I create 3 queues a, b, and c.  I delete the pod and its recreated.  The queue list is empty.  I then go ahead and create queues x and y.  When I delete and the pod gets recreated, it loads queues a, b, and c.  If I add a queue d to it and pod is recreated, it shows x and y.</p>

<p>I have created a configMap like below and 
I'm using the config map in my YAML file as well.  </p>

<pre><code>kubectl create configmap amq-config-map --from-file=/opt/apache-activemq- 
5.15.6/data    



apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: activemq-deployment-local
  labels:
    app: activemq
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: activemq
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: activemq
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: activemq
        image: activemq:1.0
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8161
        volumeMounts:
        - name: activemq-data-local
          mountPath: /opt/apache-activemq-5.15.6/data
          readOnly: false
      volumes:
      - name: activemq-data-local
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: amq-pv-claim-local
      - name: config-vol
        configMap:
          name: amq-config-map
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: my-service-local
spec:
  selector:
    app: activemq
  ports:
  - port: 8161
    targetPort: 8161
  type: NodePort
---
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: amq-pv-claim-local
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 2Gi
---
kind: PersistentVolume
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: amq-pv-claim-local
  labels:
    type: local
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  capacity:
    storage: 3Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: /tmp
</code></pre>

<p>When the pod is recreated, I want the queues to stay the same.  I'm almost there, but I need some help.  </p>

SamK
<p>You might be missing a setting in you volume claim:</p>

<pre><code>kind: PersistentVolume
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: amq-pv-claim-local
  labels:
    type: local
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
  capacity:
    storage: 3Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: /tmp
</code></pre>

<p>Also there is still a good change that this does not work due to the use of hostPath: HostPath means it is stored on the server the volume started. It does not migrate along with the restart of the pod, and can lead to very odd behavior in a pv. Look at using NFS, gluster, or any other cluster file system to store your data in a generically accessible path.</p>

<p>If you use a cloud provider, you can also have auto disk mounts from kubernetes, so you can use gcloud, AWS, Azure, etc to provide the storage for you and be mounted by kubernetes where kubernetes wants it be.</p>
