Two mariadb instance using same persistent storage in docker
You can not run two MariaDB engines on the same storage, and if I understood you right this is what you expected. Even if you'd mount an RWX volume on two pods, if you put /var/lib/mysql of containers in two separate MaraiaDB pods in the same place, it will result in a conflict between database engines. For MariaDB clustering lookup MariaDB Galera - an almoust-fully-synchronous replication for MariaDB. But you'll need three db engines running for it to make sense.