Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Let's start by creating a 10 GB block. We have to specify the command, region, block_size, and volume_name. The authentication token is also required along with these details. Note that this task will only create the block but will not attach it to any of the droplets:

- digital_ocean_block_storage:    state: present    command: create    region: blr1    block_size: 10    volume_name: cookbook1    api_token: "{{ DO_OAUTH_TOKEN }}"

2. Once we have the block, let's attach it to the app droplet that we created in the recipe Creating droplets:

- digital_ocean_block_storage:    state: present    command: attach    volume_name: cookbook1    region: blr1    droplet_id: "{{ app_droplet.droplet.id }}"    api_token: "{{ DO_OAUTH_TOKEN }}"

Here, we attached a volume named ...