Resize Insights Data PVC - Automation Suite

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How to resize Insights data pvc?

Issue:

KIND PersistentVolumeClaim

NAME insights-looker-lookerdir-pvc

NAMESPACE uipath

CREATED_AT 03/09/2023 16:21:05

STATUS OutOfSync

HEALTH Healthy

When trying to sync the Insights app in argocd:

SyncError

Failed sync attempt to 2022.10.1: one or more objects failed to apply, reason: PersistentVolumeClaim "insights-looker-lookerdir-pvc" is invalid: spec.resources.requests.storage: Forbidden: field can not be less than previous value (retried 4 times).

Resolution:

# Create a backup of existing argocd-cm

kubectl -n argocd get cm argocd-cm -oyaml > argocd-cm-backup.yaml

# Edit current argocd-cm configmap and search for this field resource.exclusions

kubectl edit cm argocd-cm -n argocd

# Append pvc resource i.e. to ignore any diff for pvc Insights-looker-datadir-pvc

resource.exclusions: |

--------

- apiGroups:

- ""

kinds:

- "PersistentVolumeClaim"

clusters:

- "*"

names:

- insights-looker-datadir-pvc

# Fetch argocd password and login. Replace installer-dir with absolute path

# Replace argocd-host with the alm fqdn like alm.

argocd_password=$(kubectl get secrets/"argocd-admin-password" -n "argocd" --template \{{.data.password\}\} | base64 -d)
/bin/argocd login ":443" --grpc-web --grpc-web-root-path "/" --username admin --password "${argocd_password}" --insecure

# Disable self heal operator

kubectl patch application "uipath" -n argocd --type=merge -p '{"spec" : {"syncPolicy" : {"automated" : {"selfHeal": false }}}}'

kubectl patch application "insights" -n argocd --type=merge -p '{"spec" : {"syncPolicy" : {"automated" : {"selfHeal": false }}}}'

# Scale down Insights looker deployment

kubectl -n uipath scale deploy insights-insightslooker --replicas=0

# Replace the 12Gi with actual pvc size to want post resize

echo 12Gi | numfmt --from=auto

# -> Replace this value with the actual output of previous step

kubectl -n uipath patch pvc "insights-looker-datadir-pvc" -p "{\"spec\": {\"resources\": {\"requests\": {\"storage\": \"\" }}}}"

# Enable self heal operator

kubectl patch application "insights" -n argocd --type=merge -p '{"spec" : {"syncPolicy" : {"automated" : {"selfHeal": true }}}}'

kubectl patch application "uipath" -n argocd --type=merge -p '{"spec" : {"syncPolicy" : {"automated" : {"selfHeal": true }}}}'