Troubleshooting an EKS Pod creation error - Persistent Volume Controller Failed Binding

2025-02-10 3 min read Troubleshooting Barny Baron

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

Task: Troubleshooting an EKS Pod creation error - Persistent Volume Controller Failed Binding!

While working on a project using CloudFormation to build out an EKS Cluster and then mount an S3 bucket into a pod using the Container Storage Interface, I hit a problem as my pod came online and thought I would document the fix here.

Troubleshooting

Building an EKS cluster and mounting an S3 bucket within a pod using the CSI Driver

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building an EKS cluster and mounting an S3 bucket within a pod using the CSI Driver!

This week, I used CloudFormation to build out an EKS Cluster and then mount an S3 bucket into a pod using the Container Storage Interface (CSI).