According to documentation, using terraform, I'm able to create a droplet on digital ocean:
resource "digitalocean_volume" "foobar" {
region = "nyc1"
name = "baz"
size = 100
description = "an example volume"
}
So, I'm also able to add a volume to it:
resource "digitalocean_droplet" "foobar" {
name = "baz"
size = "1gb"
image = "coreos-stable"
region = "nyc1"
volume_ids = ["${digitalocean_volume.foobar.id}"]
}
I'd like to know how to mount this on a desired location.
I need to mount it automatically. I mean, when droplet is up I need to the volume is mounted. I was thinking about using chef...
Any ideas?
To mount the volume automatically, you can use user_data via cloud init to run a script as follow:
This is how your digitalocean_droplet resources should reflect:
resource "digitalocean_droplet" "foobar" {
name = "baz"
size = "1gb"
image = "coreos-stable"
region = "nyc1"
volume_ids = ["${digitalocean_volume.foobar.id}"]
# user data
user_data = "${data.template_cloudinit_config.cloudinit-example.rendered}"
}
Then your cloud.init file that contains the cloudinit_config should be as bellow. It will reference the shell script in ${TERRAFORM_HOME}/script/disk.sh that would mount your volume automatically:
provider "cloudinit" {}
data "template_file" "shell-script" {
template = "${file("scripts/disk.sh")}"
}
data "template_cloudinit_config" "cloudinit-example" {
gzip = false
base64_encode = false
part {
content_type = "text/x-shellscript"
content = "${data.template_file.shell-script.rendered}"
}
}
The shell script to mount the volume automatically on startup is in ${TERRAFORM_HOME}/script/disk.sh
It will first check if a file system exist. If true it wouldn't format the disk if not it will
#!/bin/bash
DEVICE_FS=`blkid -o value -s TYPE ${DEVICE}`
if [ "`echo -n $DEVICE_FS`" == "" ] ; then
mkfs.ext4 ${DEVICE}
fi
mkdir -p /data
echo '${DEVICE} /data ext4 defaults 0 0' >> /etc/fstab
mount /data
I hope this helps
Mounting the volume needs to be done from the guest OS itself using mount
, fstab
, etc.
The digital ocean docs cover this here.
Using Chef you could use resource_mount to mount it in an automated fashion.
The device name will be /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0DO_Volume_YOUR_VOLUME_NAME
. So, using the example from the Terraform docs, it would be /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0DO_Volume_baz
.