Pinot On Kubernetes FAQ

This page has a collection of frequently asked questions about Pinot on Kubernetes with answers from the community.

This is a list of questions frequently asked in our troubleshooting channel on Slack. To contribute additional questions and answers, make a pull request.

How to increase server disk size on AWS

The following is an example using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

1. Update Storage Class

In the Kubernetes (k8s) cluster, check the storage class: in Amazon EKS, it should be gp2.

Then update StorageClass to ensure:

allowVolumeExpansion: true

Once StorageClass is updated, it should look like this:

2. Update PVC

Once the storage class is updated, then we can update the PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) for the server disk size.

Now we want to double the disk size for pinot-server-3.

The following is an example of current disks:

The following is the output of data-pinot-server-3:

PVC data-pinot-server-3

Now, let's change the PVC size to 2T by editing the server PVC.

kubectl edit pvc data-pinot-server-3 -n pinot

Once updated, the specification's PVC size is updated to 2T, but the status's PVC size is still 1T.

3. Restart pod to let it reflect

Restart the pinot-server-3 pod:

Recheck the PVC size: