Pin EBS volumes to EC2 hosts.
pip install ebs-pin3
Previous versions for 2.7 are available as
pip install ebs-pin
- If EBS volume exists in same AZ as EC2 instance
- Attaches it
- If volume exists in another AZ, then
- Creates a volume from snapshot and attaches it
- Otherwise, it creates a new volume and attaches it
Also has a method to create snapshots you can place in cron, and is able to tag volumes
Attach a new or existing volume
ebs-pin attach -h # Help!
ebs-pin attach -u some-arbitrary-static-id -d /dev/xvdf -s 10 -t gp2 --tags Team=DevOps Application=UnDevOpsLikeHost
Snapshot the current attached volume
ebs-pin snapshot -h # Help!
ebs-pin snapshot -u some-arbitrary-static-id --tags SnappedTag=ChooseSomething
- This is almost line for line copy of stapler code in Ruby
- A shout out goes to Gonz who thought of it originally
To build and upload
make upload
- Check if already mounted before attempting to run again
- Delete old snapshot once snapshot succeeds, keep X snapshots