Mount a shared Azure disk in Azure Kubernetes to multiple windows PODs - azure

Question

I want to attach a shared disk to multiple windows containers on AKS.
From post learned that it can be done for Linux containers.
I am trying to do the same with windows container but it's failing to mount a shared disk, with below error
MapVolume.MapPodDevice failed for volume "pvc-6e07bdca-2126-4a5b-806a-026016c3798d" : rpc error: code = Internal desc = Could not mount "2" at "\var\lib\kubelet\plugins\kubernetes.io\csi\volumeDevices\publish\pvc-6e07bdca-2126-4a5b-806a-026016c3798d\4e44da87-ea33-4d85-a7db-076db0883bcf": rpc error: code = Unknown desc = not an absolute Windows path: 2
Error occured
Used below to dynamically provision Shared Azure Disk
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
kind: StorageClass
metadata:
name: managed-csi-custom
provisioner: disk.csi.azure.com
parameters:
skuname: Premium_LRS
maxShares: "2"
cachingMode: None
reclaimPolicy: Delete
---
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: pvc-azuredisk-dynamic
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
resources:
requests:
storage: 4Gi
volumeMode: Block
storageClassName: managed-csi-custom
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
labels:
app: test-shared-disk
name: deployment-azuredisk
spec:
replicas: 2
selector:
matchLabels:
app: test-shared-disk
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: test-shared-disk
name: deployment-azuredisk
spec:
nodeSelector:
role: windowsgeneral
containers:
- name: deployment-azuredisk
image: mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/runtime:4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2019
volumeDevices:
- name: azuredisk
devicePath: "D:\test"
volumes:
- name: azuredisk
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: pvc-azuredisk-dynamic
Is it possible to mount shared disk for windows container on AKS? Thanks for help.

Answer 1

Azure shared disks is an Azure managed disks feature that enables attaching an Azure disk to agent nodes simultaneously. But it doesn't apply for window node pool only
To overcome this issue or mounting Azure Disk CSI driver to window node you need to provisoned or create the window node pool first.
Please refer this MS tutorial to add a Windows node pool.
After you have a Windows node pool, you can now use the same built-in storage classes managed-csi to mount the DISK.
For more information and Validating Volume Mapping you can refer this MS Document