DigitalOcean pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims

This:

no storage class is set

And an empty output for kubectl describe sc means that there's no storage class.

I recommend installing the CSI-driver for Digital Ocean. That will create a do-block-storage class using the Kubernetes CSI interface.

Another option is to use local storage. Using a local storage class:

$ cat <<EOFkind: StorageClassapiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1metadata:  name: local-storageprovisioner: kubernetes.io/no-provisionervolumeBindingMode: WaitForFirstConsumerEOF | kubectl apply -f -

Then for either case you may need to set it as a default storage class if you don't specify storageClassName in your PVC:

$ kubectl patch storageclass local-storage -p '{"metadata": {"annotations":{"storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class":"true"}}}'

or

$ kubectl patch storageclass do-block-storage -p '{"metadata": {"annotations":{"storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class":"true"}}}'

It is a statefulSet using PersistentVolumeClaims

You need to configure a default storageClass in your cluster so that the PersistentVolumeClaim can take the storage from there.

In minikube one is already available so it succeeds without error:

C02W84XMHTD5:ucp iahmad$ kubectl get sc --all-namespaces NAME                 PROVISIONER                AGEstandard (default)   k8s.io/minikube-hostpath   7d