this is a clear issue with provisioner not handling the pvc request for any pod having a pvc. It’s not related chart but provisioner you are suing that probably doesn’t support dynamic allocation. what provisioner are you using?

currently http://kubernetes.io/no-provisioner

i want the storage to be on NFS eventually, the NFS is mounted to a local path on all the nodes (/data/nfs-ssd)

you need a dynamic capable provisioner

with that in place k8s should be able to provisione pvc

i see, checking