Based on this doc, Host folder sharing is not implemented in the KVM driver yet. This is the driver I am using actually.

To overcome this, there are 2 solutions:

• Use the virtualbox driver so that you can mount your hostPath volume by changing the path on you localhost /home/THE_USR/... to /hosthome/THE_USR/...

• Mount your volume to the minikube VM based on the command $ minikube mount /home/THE_USR/.... The command will return you the path of your mounted volume on the minikube VM. Example is given down.

Example

(a) mounting a volume on the minikube VM

the minikube mount command returned that path /mount-9p

$ minikube mount -v 3 /home/amine/DockerProjects/gcloud-kubernetes/application/06-hostPath-volume-example-minikubeMounting /home/amine/DockerProjects/gcloud-kubernetes/application/06-hostPath-volume-example-minikube into /mount-9p on the minikubeVMThis daemon process needs to stay alive for the mount to still be accessible...2017/03/31 06:42:27 connected2017/03/31 06:42:27 >>> 192.168.42.241:34012 Tversion tag 65535 msize 8192 version '9P2000.L'2017/03/31 06:42:27 <<< 192.168.42.241:34012 Rversion tag 65535 msize 8192 version '9P2000'

(b) Specification of the path on the deployment

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1kind: Deploymentmetadata:  name: php-hostpathspec:  replicas: 1  template:    metadata:      labels:        app: php-hostpath    spec:      containers:      - name: php-hostpath        image: php:7.0-apache        ports:        - containerPort: 80        volumeMounts:          - name: vol-php-hostpath            mountPath: /var/www/html      volumes:      - name: vol-php-hostpath        hostPath:          path: /mount-9p

(c) Checking if mounting the volume worked well

amine@amine-Inspiron-N5110:~/DockerProjects/gcloud-kubernetes/application/06-hostPath-volume-example-minikube$ kubectl exec -ti php-hostpath-3498998593-6mxsn bashroot@php-hostpath-3498998593-6mxsn:/var/www/html# cat index.php <?phpecho "This is my first docker project";root@php-hostpath-3498998593-6mxsn:/var/www/html# cat index.php                                                                                                                                 <?phpecho 'This is my first hostPath on kubernetes';root@php-hostpath-3498998593-6mxsn:/var/www/html# cat index.php <?phpecho 'This is my first hostPath on kubernetes';root@php-hostpath-3498998593-6mxsn:/var/www/html# 

NB: this kind of volume mounting is only development environment. If I were in production environment, the code will not be mounted: it will be in the image.

Hope it helps others.