Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

Let's start by creating a 5 GB volume:

- name: create 5G test volume  os_volume:    state: present    size: 5    display_name: data

The os_volume module takes a size and a display name as parameters and creates a volume. This volume is not attached to the compute instance yet. We'll attach this volume to our webserver compute instance in the next task.

Let's go ahead and attach the volume created in the previous task to the webserver compute instance that we created before:

- name: attach volume to host  os_server_volume:    state: present    server: webserver    volume: data

The preceding task is going to attach the volume with the name data to a compute instance named webserver. We can log into the instance and verify this. We may format the ...