DigitalOcean Block Storage resource

[troyswanson]

Looks like the folks at DigitalOcean just released a beta of their Block Storage product.

https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/block-storage-beta/

[troyswanson]

It looks like the easiest flow would be to create the drive and then include it in the Droplet creation, a lot like how SSH Keys work. Here's a Droplet creation example from the documentation:

{
  "name": "example.com",
  "region": "nyc1",
  "size": "512mb",
  "image": "ubuntu-14-04-x64",
  "drives": [
    {
      "id": "506f78a4-e098-11e5-ad9f-000f53306ae1"
    }
  ],
  "ssh_keys": null,
  "backups": false,
  "ipv6": true,
  "user_data": null,
  "private_networking": null
}

[troyswanson]

Looks like the DigitalOcean provider uses the godo package, which doesn't have support for this yet.

Upstream issue: digitalocean/godo#95

[rafaelrosafu]

Hello. I'm the product manager for the product, we're happy that it got picked up already, I would just like to clarify that it is still in beta, launch is scheduled for the summer, but we do want to support Terraform and other projects. I'll point our engineers to this thread. Cheers.

[aybabtme]

Hey @troyswanson! We have an internal fork of terraform where we've implemented support for drives! So as soon as we go public, support in terraform should land very quickly. We use terraform a lot, so this is something we took care of doing early for internal testing.

[troyswanson]

@rafaelmagu @aybabtme I definitely understand. I just wanted to test out the Block Storage stuff in Terraform since that's the primary way I interact with DigitalOcean.

[aybabtme]

I think we should be able to push our internal fork on our public Github org, so you could use that in the meantime =]

[troyswanson]

@aybabtme That'd be awesome. Thanks!

[stack72]

@aybabtme

Have you thought about opening a PR to the main repo? We have had support for things like EFS before it went GA :)

P.

[troyswanson]

Well, now that block storage is live, it's probably appropriate to bump this issue.

[aybabtme]

@troyswanson yup #7560 =P

[troyswanson]

Thanks, mate 🙇

[troyswanson]

Closing this in lieu of #7560

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