amazon.aws.ec2_vol module – Create and attach a volume, return volume id and device map

Note

This module is part of the amazon.aws collection (version 2.3.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install amazon.aws.

To use it in a playbook, specify: amazon.aws.ec2_vol.

New in version 1.0.0: of amazon.aws

Synopsis

  • Creates an EBS volume and optionally attaches it to an instance.

  • If both instance and name are given and the instance has a device at the device name, then no volume is created and no attachment is made.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 3.6

  • boto3 >= 1.15.0

  • botocore >= 1.18.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

aws_access_key

aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key

string

AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the aws_access_key and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

aws_ca_bundle

path

The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.

Not used by boto 2 based modules.

Note: The CA Bundle is read ‘module’ side and may need to be explicitly copied from the controller if not run locally.

aws_config

dictionary

A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.

Parameters can be found at https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config.

Only the ‘user_agent’ key is used for boto modules. See http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html#boto for more boto configuration.

aws_secret_key

aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key

string

AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the aws_secret_key and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs

boolean

Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) “resource:action” API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

delete_on_termination

boolean

When set to true, the volume will be deleted upon instance termination.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

device_name

string

Device id to override device mapping. Assumes /dev/sdf for Linux/UNIX and /dev/xvdf for Windows.

ec2_url

aliases: aws_endpoint_url, endpoint_url

string

URL to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.

encrypted

boolean

Enable encryption at rest for this volume.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

id

string

Volume id if you wish to attach an existing volume (requires instance) or remove an existing volume

instance

string

Instance ID if you wish to attach the volume. Since 1.9 you can set to None to detach.

iops

integer

The provisioned IOPs you want to associate with this volume (integer).

kms_key_id

string

Specify the id of the KMS key to use.

modify_volume

boolean

added in 1.4.0 of amazon.aws

The volume won’t be modified unless this key is true.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

multi_attach

boolean

added in 2.0.0 of amazon.aws

If set to yes, Multi-Attach will be enabled when creating the volume.

When you create a new volume, Multi-Attach is disabled by default.

This parameter is supported with io1 and io2 volumes only.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

name

string

Volume Name tag if you wish to attach an existing volume (requires instance)

profile

aliases: aws_profile

string

Using profile will override aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token and support for passing them at the same time as profile has been deprecated.

aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token will be made mutually exclusive with profile after 2022-06-01.

purge_tags

boolean

added in 1.5.0 of amazon.aws

Whether to remove existing tags that aren’t passed in the tags parameter

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region

string

The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region

security_token

aliases: aws_security_token, access_token

string

AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the security_token and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

snapshot

string

Snapshot ID on which to base the volume.

state

string

Whether to ensure the volume is present or absent.

The use of state=list to interrogate the volume has been deprecated and will be removed after 2022-06-01. The ‘list’ functionality has been moved to a dedicated module amazon.aws.ec2_vol_info.

Choices:

  • absent

  • present ← (default)

  • list

tags

dictionary

tag:value pairs to add to the volume after creation.

Default: {}

throughput

integer

added in 1.4.0 of amazon.aws

Volume throughput in MB/s.

This parameter is only valid for gp3 volumes.

Valid range is from 125 to 1000.

Requires at least botocore version 1.19.27.

validate_certs

boolean

When set to “no”, SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with the AWS APIs.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

volume_size

integer

Size of volume (in GiB) to create.

volume_type

string

Type of EBS volume; standard (magnetic), gp2 (SSD), gp3 (SSD), io1 (Provisioned IOPS), io2 (Provisioned IOPS), st1 (Throughput Optimized HDD), sc1 (Cold HDD). “Standard” is the old EBS default and continues to remain the Ansible default for backwards compatibility.

Choices:

  • standard ← (default)

  • gp2

  • io1

  • st1

  • sc1

  • gp3

  • io2

zone

aliases: availability_zone, aws_zone, ec2_zone

string

Zone in which to create the volume, if unset uses the zone the instance is in (if set).

Notes

Note

  • If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_PROFILE or AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION, AWS_CA_BUNDLE

  • When no credentials are explicitly provided the AWS SDK (boto3) that Ansible uses will fall back to its configuration files (typically ~/.aws/credentials). See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html for more information.

  • Modules based on the original AWS SDK (boto) may read their default configuration from different files. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html for more information.

  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be defined in the configuration files.

Examples

# Simple attachment action
- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    instance: XXXXXX
    volume_size: 5
    device_name: sdd
    region: us-west-2

# Example using custom iops params
- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    instance: XXXXXX
    volume_size: 5
    iops: 100
    device_name: sdd
    region: us-west-2

# Example using snapshot id
- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    instance: XXXXXX
    snapshot: "{{ snapshot }}"

# Playbook example combined with instance launch
- amazon.aws.ec2:
    keypair: "{{ keypair }}"
    image: "{{ image }}"
    wait: yes
    count: 3
  register: ec2
- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    instance: "{{ item.id }}"
    volume_size: 5
  loop: "{{ ec2.instances }}"
  register: ec2_vol

# Example: Launch an instance and then add a volume if not already attached
#   * Volume will be created with the given name if not already created.
#   * Nothing will happen if the volume is already attached.

- amazon.aws.ec2:
    keypair: "{{ keypair }}"
    image: "{{ image }}"
    zone: YYYYYY
    id: my_instance
    wait: yes
    count: 1
  register: ec2

- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    instance: "{{ item.id }}"
    name: my_existing_volume_Name_tag
    device_name: /dev/xvdf
  loop: "{{ ec2.instances }}"
  register: ec2_vol

# Remove a volume
- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    id: vol-XXXXXXXX
    state: absent

# Detach a volume (since 1.9)
- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    id: vol-XXXXXXXX
    instance: None
    region: us-west-2

# List volumes for an instance
- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    instance: i-XXXXXX
    state: list
    region: us-west-2

# Create new volume using SSD storage
- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    instance: XXXXXX
    volume_size: 50
    volume_type: gp2
    device_name: /dev/xvdf

# Create new volume with multi-attach enabled
- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    zone: XXXXXX
    multi_attach: true
    volume_size: 4
    volume_type: io1
    iops: 102

# Attach an existing volume to instance. The volume will be deleted upon instance termination.
- amazon.aws.ec2_vol:
    instance: XXXXXX
    id: XXXXXX
    device_name: /dev/sdf
    delete_on_termination: yes

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

device

string

device name of attached volume

Returned: when success

Sample: “/def/sdf”

volume

string

a dictionary containing detailed attributes of the volume

Returned: when success

Sample: {“attachment_set”: [{“attach_time”: “2015-10-23T00:22:29.000Z”, “deleteOnTermination”: “false”, “device”: “/dev/sdf”, “instance_id”: “i-8356263c”, “status”: “attached”}], “create_time”: “2015-10-21T14:36:08.870Z”, “encrypted”: false, “id”: “vol-35b333d9”, “iops”: null, “size”: 1, “snapshot_id”: “”, “status”: “in-use”, “tags”: {“env”: “dev”}, “type”: “standard”, “zone”: “us-east-1b”}

volume_id

string

the id of volume

Returned: when success

Sample: “vol-35b333d9”

volume_type

string

the volume type

Returned: when success

Sample: “standard”

Authors

  • Lester Wade (@lwade)