Persistent volume deletion on deployment deletion

[jurisitsm]

I am encountering an issue when deploying ArangoDB using the Kubernetes Operator in Rancher. When I delete the ArangoDB chart in Rancher, the associated Persistent Volume is also deleted, despite having a StorageClass with a reclaim policy set to "Retain." This behavior is causing data loss.

The ArangoDB Operator's handling of finalizers, particularly the "remove-child-finalizers" process, might be relevant to this issue.

Here is the yaml defining the arango deployment in my chart: apiVersion: database.arangodb.com/v1 kind: ArangoDeployment metadata: name: {{ .Values.arangodb.deploymentName }} labels: {{- include "labels" . | indent 4 }} app.kubernetes.io/component: arango spec: image: {{ .Values.repository }}/{{ .Values.arangodb.image.name }}:{{ .Values.arangodb.image.version }} imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.pullPolicy }} imagePullSecrets: - docker-registry-key annotations: {{- include "labels" . | indent 4 }} app.kubernetes.io/component: arango tls: caSecretName: None mode: Single {{- if .Values.arangodb.nodePort }} externalAccess: nodePort: {{ .Values.arangodb.nodePort }} {{ end }} single: resources: {{- toYaml .Values.arangodb.resources | nindent 6 }} volumeClaimTemplate: spec: storageClassName: arango-storage-class accessModes: - ReadWriteOnce resources: requests: storage: 8Gi volumeMode: Filesystem

And here is the yaml of the storage class definition: apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1 kind: StorageClass metadata: name: arango-storage-class provisioner: kubernetes.io/aws-ebs reclaimPolicy: Retain

After installation the storage class gets created, the policy is indeed set to retain, and the arango deployment has it as it's storage class.

[ajanikow]

Hello!

Please, enable the Storage Feature via:

--deployment.feature.local-storage.pass-reclaim-policy   [LocalStorage] Pass ReclaimPolicy from StorageClass instead of using hardcoded Retain - Required version 3.6.0

This feature will be enabled by default in 1.3.0.

Best Regards, Adam.

[jurisitsm]

Since this is only one template in a large helm chart, from which our application is installed, I'd like to know if there is a way to enable this feature through the yaml template of the arango deployment, in a similar way: volumeClaimTemplate: spec: storageClassName: arango-storage-class accessModes: - ReadWriteOnce resources: requests: storage: 8Gi volumeMode: Filesystem args: - --deployment.feature.local-storage.pass-reclaim-policy I have found some documentation on the specification of an args array during the installation of the chart, but I've found the option of providing arguments to be a bit ambiguous between several options here: https://github.com/arangodb/kube-arangodb/blob/master/docs/api/ArangoDeployment.V1.md

[ajanikow]

Hello! It is Operator Command Line arg, which can be set via https://github.com/arangodb/kube-arangodb/blob/master/chart/kube-arangodb/values.yaml#L9