Is it possible to create snapshots from a volume in packer? I want to remove a volume from a stopped instance, snapshot it, and then mount an empty volume to the stopped instance and start it again.
On Friday, February 8, 2019 at 2:41:30 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > I am using packer to create a bunch of images. I want to be able to launch > an instance from an image and swap out its root volume to create another > image. So I was thinking about stopping the instance and "snapshotting" the > new root volume to create an image. I'd like to accomplish this using > packer. Is there a way to create snapshots using packer? Is there a > recommended approach to accomplishing this? Thanks! > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/5b5bd53e-fe17-449c-9031-456866a37445%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
