Exec driver, mounted volume is empty

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Hi,

I am trying to run a stateful mysql job with nomad using exec driver.
I have setup a host volume in the nomad config as:

host_volume "mysql" {
    path      = "/opt/mysql/data"
    read_only = false
  }

I then reference this in the job as:

job "mysql" {
  type        = "service"
  datacenters = var.datacenters

  group "mysql-server" {
    count = 1

    volume "mysql" {
      type      = "host"
      read_only = false
      source    = "mysql"
    }

    task "mysql-server" {
      volume_mount {
        volume      = "mysql"
        destination = "/var/lib/mysql"
      }

      driver = "exec"
      config {
        command = "/usr/sbin/mysqld"
        args    = ["--defaults-file=/var/lib/mysql/my.cnf"]
      }

I expect that my.cnf is found in the volume and the server starts, but it fails. Frustratingly without any logs anywhere. After some debugging I found that the alloc chroot (in alloc in nomad data dir) for the job didn’t have anything in /var/lib/mysql. It’s always empty no matter what I try. I am definitely missing something basic but can’t figure out what :slight_smile: Can someone please help?

The volume shows up fine in nomad node status -self btw.

2

Just thinking out loud here
Have you checked the Permissions and ownership of the path with the ownership of the running exec process might be a permissions issue