Thanks for the reply. I think the mounting part should be straight forward.
My main problem is defining in puppet the name of the EBS volume to attach, and having the puppet client on the EC2 instance actually *attach* the volume after it has "spun-up". On Apr 21, 1:07 pm, Ken <k...@bob.sh> wrote: > > Is it possible, using puppet, to configure an EC2 instance so that > > when it boots it attaches & mounts an EBS volume? If so, what steps > > would one take to achieve this? > > The mounting should normally be done by your os - ie. put the entry > in /etc/fstab. > > However - puppet can manage the /etc/fstab file with the 'mount' > resource if you wanted: > > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#mount > > But - I'm guessing your problem is that you don't want to re-create > your EBS/AMI image every time you change /etc/fstab right? > > If you didn't want to save the entry in fstab and do the whole > 'snapshot' image thing (to persist your /etc/fstab entry in your EBS/ > AMI image) you could have puppet always start at bootup and let puppet > do the mounting. > > Puppet will mount the file-system at any time quite happily in this > regard. Just need to make sure that your ensure line is 'mounted'. For > example: > > mount {"/mnt/point": > device => "/dev/sdc1", > ensure => "mounted", > ... > > } > > Just make sure you getting your ordering right - as most people would > be used to mounts appearing quite early in any boot sequence ... if > you manage your service starts in puppet as well, you can let puppet > do the ordering for you. > > ken. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
