[LRUG] [devops] enlarge root volume on existing ec2 instance

[Paul Campbell]

Do you actually need the same instance? My preferred technique of swapping
anything in EC2 is:

- spin up a clone with the new setup
- migrate any data to the clone
- take down the service if necessary
- re-run the data migration to pick up any changes
- replace the old server with the new one

in my experience, this gives you the minimum of downtime, with the maximum
simplicity.

—P


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Viktor Trón <viktor.tron at gmail.com> wrote:

> slightly off topic, but encouraged by recent devops wisdom.
>
> We need to have bigger disk on an existing ec2 instance.
>
> One approach even reading about gives me headache
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/550790/growing-amazon-ebs-volume-sizes
> the accepted answer is from 2009 and lots of controvercy.
>
> Another approach that might work is to turn off the instance (stop not
> terminate), create an AMI image from it then relaunch with a larger disk.
>
> any guidance appreciated.
> Vik
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