The solution given is not a valid way to provide a configuration file to a container at runtime using Kubernetes tools and steps. The reason is that there is no such key as .spec.containers.configMounts in the PodSpec. The correct key to use is .spec.containers.volumeMounts, which specifies the volumes to mount into the container’s filesystem1. To use a ConfigMap as a volume source, one needs to create a ConfigMap object that contains the configuration file as a key-value pair, and then reference it in the .spec.volumes section of the PodSpec2. A ConfigMap is a Kubernetes API object that lets you store configuration data for other objects to use3. For example, to provide a nginx.conf file to a nginx container, one can do the following steps:

Create a ConfigMap from the nginx.conf file:

kubectl create configmap nginx-config --from-file=nginx.conf

Create a Pod that mounts the ConfigMap as a volume and uses it as the configuration file for the nginx container:

apiVersion: v1

kind: Pod

metadata:

name: nginx-pod

spec:

containers:

- name: nginx

image: nginx

volumeMounts:

- name: config-volume

mountPath: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

subPath: nginx.conf

volumes:

- name: config-volume

configMap:

name: nginx-config

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