InfluxDB not starting on OpenShift due to permission error

I'm following the README trying to get everything set up on Openshift, however when creating the deployment based on the jmeter-deploy.yaml, the InfluxDB container goes into a crashloop due to a permissions error

```
ts=2019-06-21T05:50:01.973379Z lvl=info msg="InfluxDB starting" log_id=0GA9CAyG000 version=1.7.6 branch=1.7 commit=01c8dd416270f424ab0c40f9291e269ac6921964
ts=2019-06-21T05:50:01.973459Z lvl=info msg="Go runtime" log_id=0GA9CAyG000 version=go1.11 maxprocs=8
run: create server: mkdir all: mkdir /var/lib/influxdb/meta: permission denied
```

I presume that this is because OpenShift runs all containers as a non root user by default. Does anyone have experience setting this up on OpenShift and have a hint on what would be the most elegant way to solve this?

Start with the README and jmeter-deploy.yaml, then investigate why the InfluxDB container cannot create /var/lib/influxdb/meta when deployed on OpenShift. Done means the deployment starts without the reported permission error; the issue does not identify a test or a specific intended fix.

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