storage-cookbook

A cookbook for mounting all available EC2 ephemeral volumes and saving their respective mount points into node attributes.

Supported Platforms

EC2 only (but it will fail cleanly on other platforms).

Attributes

Key	Type	Description	Default
['storage']['ephemeral_mounts']	Array	An array of strings, set automatically by the recipe, to be used by other cookbooks, which lists the mount points of ephemeral storage devices.	automatic

Usage

Recipes

storage::default

Include storage in a wrapper cookbook:

include_recipe 'storage::default'

...or include storage in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[storage::default]"
  ]
}

Resources

format_mount

Formats a device, creates a mount point for it, and the mounts it.

Attributes

• mount_point (name attribute) The directory where the filesystem should be mounted
• device_name The path to the device (typically starts with /dev)
• fs_type Filesystem type to use for formatting (default: ext4)
• reserved_space Percentage of space to reserve for the superuser (default: 0)

e.g.

  storage_format_mount '/mnt/dev0' do
    device_name    '/dev/xvdb1'
    fs_type        'ext4'
    reserved_space 5
  end

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (i.e. add-new-recipe)
3. Write you change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request

License and Authors

Author:: EverTrue, Inc. (eric.herot@evertrue.com)