Just like before, [this “sidecar” container](https://github.com/cvallance/mongo-k8s-sidecar) will configure the MongoDB replica set automatically. A “sidecar” is a helper container which helps the main container do its work.

The configuration for the StatefulSet looks like this:

```yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
  name: mongo
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      role: mongo
      environment: test
  serviceName: "mongo"
  replicas: 3
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        role: mongo
        environment: test
    spec:
      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
      containers:
      - name: mongo
        image: mongo
        command:
          - mongod
          - "--replSet"
          - rs0
          - "--smallfiles"
          - "--noprealloc"
        ports:
          - containerPort: 27017
        volumeMounts:
          - name: mongo-persistent-storage
            mountPath: /data/db
      - name: mongo-sidecar
        image: cvallance/mongo-k8s-sidecar
        env:
          - name: MONGO_SIDECAR_POD_LABELS
            value: "role=mongo,environment=test"
  volumeClaimTemplates:
    - metadata:
        name: mongo-persistent-storage
      spec:
        storageClassName: "fast"
        accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
        resources:
          requests:
            storage: 100Gi
 ```

It’s a little long, but fairly straightforward.

The first second describes the StatefulSet object. Then, we move into the Metadata section, where you can specify labels and the number of replicas.

Next comes the pod spec. The terminationGracePeriodSeconds is used to gracefully shutdown the pod when you scale down the number of replicas, which is important for databases! Then the configurations for the two containers is shown. The first one runs MongoDB with command line flags that configure the replica set name. It also mounts the persistent storage volume to /data/db, the location where MongoDB saves its data. The second container runs the sidecar.

Finally, there is the volumeClaimTemplates. This is what talks to the StorageClass we created before to provision the volume. It will provision a 100 GB disk for each MongoDB replica.