PV & PVC with EKS Cluster - amazon-web-services

Question

After kubectl apply -f pvc.yaml the below yaml file, I can able to find the mount path /var/local/pvctest inside the container that has been created. But, the host path /var/local/pvctest in the worker node is not created.
I'm new to PV & PVC with EKS and any help to fix this issue is much appreciated!
kind: Deployment
apiVersion: apps/v1
metadata:
name: pvctest
labels:
alias: pvctest
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
alias: pvctest
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
alias: pvctest
spec:
containers:
- name: pvctest
image: neo4j
ports:
- containerPort: 7474
- containerPort: 7687
volumeMounts:
- name: testpv
mountPath: /var/local/pvctest
volumes:
- name: testpv
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: pvctest-claim
---
kind: PersistentVolume
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: pvtest
labels:
type: local
spec:
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
capacity:
storage: 3Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
hostPath:
path: /var/local/pvctest
---
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: pvctest-claim
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 3Gi

Answer 1

PersistentVolume with hostPath requires the directory on the host to be pre-created. If you want the directory to be created automatically for you:
...
containers:
- name: pvctest
image: neo4j
...
volumeMounts:
- name: testpv
mountPath: /var/local/pvctest
volumes:
- name: testpv
hostPath:
path: /data
type: DirectoryOrCreate
PV/PVC is actually optonal for hostPath.