# ECK with Storage Class

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-with-storage-class/218424>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [February 8, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-with-storage-class/218424 "2020-02-08T01:01:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Nerbelir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nerbelir/32/62307_2.png) [@Nerbelir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nerbelir)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-with-storage-class/218424/1 "2020-02-08T01:01:42Z")

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Hola,

I'm trying to something a bit novel and use the guides for quickstart and volume templates to get ECK working. The novel part is I'm mounting an SMB share with Azure's Flexvolume SMB driver. I can get the PV setup and a test PVC works just fine, however I'm running into issues getting the quickstart to see the PV to use. I'm hoping I'm just doing something wrong in one of my templates and could be corrected. I've included the relevant PV, Storage Class, and Quickstart yaml files i'm using below. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Error on PVC created from the yaml:

> waiting for a volume to be created, either by external provisioner

**PV.yaml**

> apiVersion: v1  
> kind: PersistentVolume  
> metadata:  
> name: k8s-sofs-pv  
> spec:  
> capacity:  
> storage: 50Gi  
> accessModes:  
> - ReadWriteMany  
> persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain  
> storageClassName: flexvolume-smb-k8s-sofs  
> flexVolume:  
> driver: "[microsoft.com/smb](http://microsoft.com/smb)"  
> secretRef:  
> name: smbcreds  
> options:  
> source: "[//k8s-sofs.lab.nerbelir.com/k8s-pv-elk](https://k8s-sofs.lab.nerbelir.com/k8s-pv-elk)"  
> mountoptions: "vers=3.0,dir\_mode=0777,file\_mode=0777"

**StorageClass.yaml**

> kind: StorageClass  
> apiVersion: [storage.k8s.io/v1](http://storage.k8s.io/v1)  
> metadata:  
> name: flexvolume-smb-k8s-sofs  
> provisioner: [k8s-sofs.lab.nerbelir.com/k8s-pv-elk](http://k8s-sofs.lab.nerbelir.com/k8s-pv-elk)  
> mountOptions:
> 
> - vers=3.0
> - dir\_mode=0777
> - file\_mode=0777  
> reclaimPolicy: Retain  
> allowVolumeExpansion: true

**elastic-quickstart.yaml**

> apiVersion: [elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1](http://elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1)  
> kind: Elasticsearch  
> metadata:  
> name: quickstart  
> spec:  
> version: 7.5.2  
> nodeSets:
> 
> - name: default  
> count: 1  
> config:  
> node.master: true  
> node.data: true  
> node.ingest: true  
> node.store.allow\_mmap: false  
> volumeClaimTemplates:
> - metadata:  
> name: elasticsearch-data  
> spec:  
> accessModes:
> - ReadWriteOnce  
> resources:  
> requests:  
> storage: 5Gi  
> storageClassName: flexvolume-smb-k8s-sofs

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**Author:** ![Nerbelir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nerbelir/32/62307_2.png) [@Nerbelir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nerbelir)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 4:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-with-storage-class/218424/2 "2020-02-08T04:23:53Z")

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So I've poked around with this a bit more. I'm using this flexvolume driver since it works to mount smb shares:

> **[Azure/kubernetes-volume-drivers](https://github.com/Azure/kubernetes-volume-drivers/tree/master/flexvolume/smb)**
>
> Kubernetes volume drivers for Azure. Contribute to Azure/kubernetes-volume-drivers development by creating an account on GitHub.

The issue I think I have is that there is no provisioner for this storageclass/driver combo. I determined this by modifying the elastic-cluster.yaml file to specify a volume under the volumeClaimTemplates. Is anyone familiar with getting SMB shares to work another way or have some resources for creating a provisioner?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-with-storage-class/218424/3 "2022-11-04T07:44:05Z")

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