EBSMount

ebsmount is a set of utilities for managing EBS volumes on a running EC2 instance. It was inspired by the similar functionality in https://github.com/base2genomics/batchit.

Install

go get github.com/adamstruck/ebsmount

Usage

Mount a EBS volume

Create, attach and mount an EBS volume.

$ ebsmount mount -h
Mount an EBS volume to an EC2 instance.

Usage:
  ebsmount mount [flags]

Flags:
  -t, --fs-type string       file system type to create (argument must be accepted by mkfs) (default "ext4")
  -h, --help                 help for mount
  -i, --iops int             Provisioned IOPS. Only valid for volume type io1. Range is 100 to 20000 and <= 50*size of volume
  -k, --keep                 don't delete the volume on termination (default is to delete)
  -m, --mount-point string   directory on which to mount the EBS volume
  -s, --size int             size in GB of desired EBS volume (default 200)
  -v, --volume-type string   desired volume type; gp2 for General Purpose SSD; io1 for Provisioned IOPS SSD; st1 for Throughput Optimized HDD; sc1 for HDD or Magnetic volumes; standard for infrequent (default "gp2")

Unmount a volume

Unmount, detach and delete an EBS volume.

$ ebsmount unmount -h
Unmount an EBS volume from an EC2 instance.

Usage:
  ebsmount unmount [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help                 help for unmount
  -m, --mount-point string   directory to unmount
  -v, --volume-id string     EBS volume ID to detach and/or delete from instance

Server

Run as a service on a local unix socket.

$ ebsmount server -h
Start ebsmount as a service.

Usage:
  ebsmount server [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help            help for server
  -s, --socket string   unix socket (default "./ebsmount.sock")

API

POST /mount

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
Size	Int32	Size in GB of desired EBS volume
MountPoint	String	Directory on which to mount the EBS volume
VolumeType	String	Desired volume type; gp2 for General Purpose SSD; io1 for Provisioned IOPS SSD; st1 for Throughput Optimized HDD; sc1 for HDD or Magnetic volumes; standard for infrequent
FSType	String	File system type to create (argument must be accepted by mkfs)
Iops	Int32	Provisioned IOPS. Only valid for volume type io1. Range is 100 to 20000 and <= 50*size of volume

CURL example:

curl -d '{"Size": 100, "MountPoint": "/home/ec2-user/mnt", "VolumeType": "gp2", "FSType": "ext4"}' --unix-socket /var/run/ebsmount.sock http://localhost/mount

Success-Response (example):

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
    "Device":"/dev/sdq",
    "VolumeID":"vol-0b725f1904fed492d"
}

POST /unmount

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
VolumeID	String	EBS volume ID
MountPoint	String	Directory to unmount

CURL example:

curl -d '{"VolumeID": "vol-03378474e88e5fd04", "MountPoint": "/home/ec2-user/mnt"}' --unix-socket /var/run/ebsmount.sock http://localhost/unmount

Success-Response (example):

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{}