Use oc run and mount volumes using overrides

bash-claim-pvc.yml

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: bash-claim
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 512Mi

run-some-pod.sh

oc run some-pod --overrides='
{
        "spec": {
            "containers": [
                {
                    "command": [
                        "/bin/bash",
                        "-c",
                        "for i in {1..5}; do echo hi stuff; sleep 5; done"
                    ],
                    "image": "registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7/rhel:latest",
                    "name": "some-pod",
                    "volumeMounts": [{
                        "mountPath": "/opt/scripts",
                        "name": "some-data"
                    }]
                }
            ],        
            "volumes": [
                {
                    "name": "some-data",
                    "persistentVolumeClaim": {
                        "claimName": "bash-claim"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
}
'  --image=dummy --restart=Never

Hello - I found your post and I'm trying it with OpenShift 3.11.146, oc v3.11.59. The result I get is image pull error: docker.io/dummy not found. Realize your post is a couple years old - do you use this technique presently?

I just tried it and it still works..!
$ oc run some-pod --overrides='

{
"spec": {
"containers": [
{
"command": [
"/bin/bash",
"-c",
"for i in {1..5}; do echo hi stuff; sleep 5; done"
],
"image": "registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7/rhel:latest",
"name": "some-pod",
"volumeMounts": [{
"mountPath": "/opt/scripts",
"name": "some-data"
}]
}
],
"volumes": [
{
"name": "some-data",
"persistentVolumeClaim": {
"claimName": "bash-claim"
}
}
]
}
}
' --image=dummy --restart=Never
pod/some-pod created

with a later version of oc though...
$ oc version
Client Version: 4.3.2
Server Version: 4.3.3
Kubernetes Version: v1.16.2

Seems odd "--image" should really be ignored because the overrides would override it..!

And working now. I went back through my notes but couldn't find what I had been doing wrong. I extended your example based on info found elsewhere to support using YAML as the override instead of JSON:

JSON=$(python -c 'import json,sys,yaml; y=yaml.safe_load(sys.stdin.read()); print(json.dumps(y))' <<EOF
spec:
  containers:
  - name: testcontainer
    image: ubuntu
  dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst
  volumes:
  - name: test
    persistentVolumeClaim:
      claimName: foo
  ...
EOF
)
oc -n namespace run test-pod --image=dummy --overrides=<<<"$JSON" --restart=Never

Thank you