Gotchas

Make sure the hostname of the machine is reachable, for example :

hostname -> some-name
ping some-name works

if its not reachable, add the host name to the hosts file.

The hostpath-provisioner creates persistence directories in the minikube virtual machine disk image under /tmp/hostpath-privisioner/pvx-* but it does not grant write access to the directory so you need to minikube ssh then sudo go+w on the persistent volume claim.