We are trying to create a solution where we want to replicate changes made to a folder inside any of the pods of the Statefulset. Any file changes inside that folder on any POD should also reflect in other pods. Is there a sidecar solution for this requirement? Because we know that Statefulset will create separate PVs for each POD and there won't be any common mount across the pods of the Statefulset.
You can try using the NFS or file system like EFS using that you will be able to implement the ReadWritemany.
For ref Azure File.
apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
name: statefulset-azurefile
labels:
k8s-app: nginx
version: v1
spec:
serviceName: statefulset-azurefile
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
k8s-app: nginx
version: v1
spec:
containers:
- name: statefulset-azurefile
image: nginx
volumeMounts:
- name: persistent-storage
mountPath: /mnt/azurefile
volumeClaimTemplates:
- metadata:
name: persistent-storage
annotations:
volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class: azurefile
spec:
accessModes: [ "ReadWriteMany" ]
resources:
requests:
storage: 5Gi
Demo : https://github.com/andyzhangx/demo/tree/master/linux/statefulset
If volumeClaimTemplates not work as expected use the persistentVolumeClaim
Article to read about ReadWriteMany access Mode :https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-files-volume
If you are on other cloud providers like GCP, AWS, Oracle(OCI) provides different file services.
OCI article if you want to explore : https://enabling-cloud.github.io/oci-learning/manual/StaticPersistentVolumeOnOCI.html