How to attach an EC2 volume to an EC2 instance using AWS CDK

Question

I'd like to attach an EC2 volume to an EC2 instance I'm creating, but I can't figure out how to do it:

const vol = new ec2.Volume(this, 'vol', {
  availabilityZone: 'ap-southeast-2a',
  size: Size.gibibytes(100),
});

const instance = new ec2.Instance(this, 'my-instance', {
  instanceName: 'my-instance',
  vpc: vpc,
  // how to attach 'vol' as a block device here?
  blockDevices: [{ deviceName: '/dev/sdf', volume: { ebsDevice: { deleteOnTermination: false, volumeSize: 1 } } }],
  //... more props
});

This code works, though vol is not attached as a block device. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Do you have to define the volume outside the instance? or does following is what you looking for?

const windows = ec2.MachineImage.latestWindows(ec2.WindowsVersion.WINDOWS_SERVER_2019_ENGLISH_FULL_BASE);

    const host = new ec2.Instance(this, "server", {
      instanceType : ec2.InstanceType.of(ec2.InstanceClass.BURSTABLE3_AMD, ec2.InstanceSize.LARGE),
      availabilityZone : "ap-southeast-2a",
      machineImage : windows,
      vpc : vpc,
      vpcSubnets : {
        subnetType: ec2.SubnetType.PRIVATE
      },
      keyName : config.keyPairName,
      blockDevices: [
        {
          deviceName : "/dev/sda1",
          volume : ec2.BlockDeviceVolume.ebs(80)
        },
        {
          deviceName : "/dev/sdm",
          volume : ec2.BlockDeviceVolume.ebs(100)
        }
      ]

    });