Attaching persistent disks
Along with the disk attached as the bootable disk, we can attach additional disks to an instance. Since the size of these disks can be easily increased as per requirement, and can be detached and reattached to another instance, they provide great flexibility in terms of usage. We have seen them being used in all sorts of databases and network storage's like NFS.
How to do it…
Let us create a 10 GB standard persistent disk and mount it on a virtual machine:
- name: attach persistent disk
gce_pd:
disk_type: pd-standard
size_gb: 10
instance_name: app
zone: "{{ zone }}"
service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
name: app-pd
tags:
- recipe3How it works...
The task creates a 10 GB standard persistent disk, the other option being a SSD disk and it attaches the disk to the app. We can log into the app instance to format the disk and use it. Typically the...
