How to mount local folder to the Kubernetes cluster created by Rancher Desktop?

Question

When I use k3d create a Kubernetes cluster, I can mount local folder /Users/me/data to the cluster /data using volume

k3d cluster create west --config=k3d-config.yaml

k3d-config.yaml

apiVersion: k3d.io/v1alpha3
kind: Simple
kubeAPI:
  host: "k8s-example.com"
  hostIP: "127.0.0.1"
  hostPort: "6440"
network: hm-network
volumes:
  - volume: "/Users/me/data:/data"  # <- this line helps mount
ports:
  - port: 40000:80
    nodeFilters:
      - loadbalancer
options:
  k3s:
    extraArgs:
      - arg: --cluster-domain=west.k8s-example.com
        nodeFilters:
          - server:*

Now I am using the Kubernetes cluster created by Rancher Desktop and hoping to do the same thing.

I am on macOS, and I found this document which seems right document (?):

On macOS and Linux, you can use lima override.yaml to write provisioning scripts.

~/Library/Application Support/rancher-desktop/lima/_config/override.yaml

You can also use override.yaml to override/modify a lima configuration setting, for example, to create additional mounts as shown below.

 mounts:
  - location: /some/path 
    writable: true

However, I am not entirely sure how to use this to mount my local folder /Users/me/data to the cluster /data.

Any guide would be appreciate!

Answer 1

You can mount it as a hostpath inside a Pod:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: my-pod
spec:
  containers:
  - image: nginx
    name: nginx
    volumeMounts:
    - mountPath: /data
      name: some-path
  volumes:
  - name: some-path
    hostPath:
      path: /some/path
      type: Directory