Unable to attach AWS EBS as volume in Kubernetes aws

Question

I hava a kubernetes cluster up running on AWS. Now when I'm trying to attach a AWS EBS as a volume to a pod, I got a "special device does not exist" problem.

Output: mount: special device /var/lib/kubelet/plugins/kubernetes.io/aws-ebs/mounts/vol-xxxxxxx does not exist

Answer 1

You need to set the cloud provider to properly mount an EBS volume. Do that in the following services:

• controller-manager
• apiserver
• kubelet

Restart everything and try mounting again.