amazon webservices EBS support missing

[MauriceSchoenmakers]

creating and mounting EBS volumes (via snapshots) is not yet supported but needed for real world applications like mysql server.

[bradphelan]

I did it with the aws chef cookbook

   aws_ebs_volume "mysql_data_volume" do
      provider              "aws_ebs_volume"
      aws_access_key        node[:awskeys][:access]
      aws_secret_access_key node[:awskeys][:secret]
      volume_id             node[:apricoserver][:db][:ebs_volume]
      availability_zone     "us-east-1b"
      device                "/dev/sdh"
      action                :attach
    end

You need to put your AWS keys into the cloud though and manually create the volume in the AWS web page. Then you can use the mount resource.

    # This works as long as you have previously formatted
    # the device as ext3 using 
    #
    #   mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdh
    # 
    # Need some magic to do this automatically. 
    #
    #
    mount "/var/local/ebs" do
      device "/dev/sdh"
      options "rw noatime"
      fstype "ext3"
      action [ :enable, :mount ]
      # Do not execute if its already mounted
      not_if "cat /proc/mounts | grep /var/local"
    end