Expanding EBS volume in use as PVC in kubernetes pod - amazon-web-services

Question

I am working with a couple of k8s pods that have a PVC attached to it as an EBS volume in AWS. I made the mistake of increasing the space of the volume through the EBS console in AWS. I was thinking I could do it through the EBS console and then exec into the container on the pod and "extend the file system". After getting into the container, I realized I was not able to extend the file system directly in the container.
That is when I came across PVC and how to increase the volume through the k8s resource:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
annotations:
kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: |
{"apiVersion":"v1","kind":"PersistentVolumeClaim","metadata":{"annotations":{},"name":"files","namespace":"default"},"spec":{"accessModes":["ReadWriteOnce"],"resources":{"requests":{"storage":"150Gi"}},"storageClassName":"default"}}
pv.kubernetes.io/bind-completed: "yes"
pv.kubernetes.io/bound-by-controller: "yes"
volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-provisioner: kubernetes.io/aws-ebs
volume.kubernetes.io/storage-resizer: kubernetes.io/aws-ebs
creationTimestamp: "2021-05-20T12:18:55Z"
finalizers:
- kubernetes.io/pvc-protection
name: files
namespace: default
resourceVersion: "202729286"
selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/persistentvolumeclaims/files
uid: a02bb805-de70-4fc8-bcef-a4943eb4ca0b
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 200Gi
storageClassName: default
volumeMode: Filesystem
volumeName: pvc-a02bb805-de70-4fc8-bcef-a4943eb4ca0b
status:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
capacity:
storage: 150Gi
conditions:
- lastProbeTime: null
lastTransitionTime: "2022-06-28T21:15:01Z"
message: Waiting for user to (re-)start a pod to finish file system resize of
volume on node.
status: "True"
type: FileSystemResizePending
phase: Bound
I have increased the size in this resource to the same size I manually increased it to in the EBS console. Additionally, I have added the allowVolumeExpansion attribute to the StorageClass and set it to true. However, I am still seeing the old size of the volume after deleting any linked pods to this PVC. Any ideas how I can increase the PVC would be helpful.