Creating Persistent Storage in Amazon's EBS
This section describes how to set up Amazon's Elastic Block Store in EC2.
- From the EC2 console, go to the ELASTIC BLOCK STORE section in the left panel and click Volumes.
- Click Create Volume.
- Optional: Configure the size of the volume or other options. The volume should be created in the same availability zone as the instance it will be attached to.
- Click Create Volume.
- Click Close.
Result: Persistent storage has been created.
For details on how to set up the newly created storage in Rancher, refer to the section on setting up existing storage.