"FATAL: data directory "/bitnami/postgresql/data" ..DETAIL: Permissions should be..." error when deploying Postgres pod using helm3 with Concourse for VMware Tanzu

Products

• Concourse for VMware Tanzu

Issue/Introduction

While deploying "concourse-#.#.#.tgz" using helm3 in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI), the Postgres pod is failing with the error below:

 

2021-02-01 12:30:50.251 UTC [1] FATAL: data directory "/bitnami/postgresql/data" has invalid permissions 
2021-02-01 12:30:50.251 UTC [1] DETAIL: Permissions should be u=rwx (0700) or u=rwx,g=rx (0750).

NAME                                 READY   STATUS                  RESTARTS         AGE
pod/concourse-postgresql-0           0/1     CrashLoopBackOff        4219 (23s ago)   14d
pod/concourse-web-#####-##########   0/1     Init:CrashLoopBackOff   4219 (49s ago)   14d
pod/concourse-worker-0               1/1     Running                 0                14d
pod/concourse-worker-1               1/1     Running                 0                14d

For more information, refer to Installing Concourse via Helm Chart.

Environment

Concourse for VMware Tanzu: 7.x - Installed via Helm

Resolution

To work around this issue, update the chart by enabling the volumePermissions.enabled parameter and then modify the deployment-values.yml file as shown below:

image: harbor.xxx.com/platform_eng_public/pks/concourse 
imageTag: 6.7.3-ubuntu
postgresql: 
 image: 
  registry: harbor.xxx.com
  repository: platform_eng_public/pks/postgres 
  tag: 0.0.2
 volumePermissions:
  enabled: true 

Additional Information

Known Helm Chart issue - 20923