Creating a Block Storage volume via the API

Reviewed on 02 June 2021 • Published on 10 January 2020

Requirements:

You have a Scaleway account
You have configured your API keys

Create a block volume from the API by launching the following command:

$ curl -q \  -H "X-Auth-Token: $SECRET_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -X POST \  -d '{"name": "block-volume-101", "organization": "'$SCW_ORGANIZATION'", "size": 10000000000, "volume_type": "b_ssd"}' \  https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/fr-par-1/volumes

To retrieve the current status of the block volume, query the volume endpoint.

$ curl -q \  -H "X-Auth-Token: $SECRET_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'  \  https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/fr-par-1/volumes/b3a42fb1-e85c-46e9-b0a6-9adb62278295{  "volume": {    "size": 10000000000,    "state": "available",    "name": "block-volume101",    "modification_date": "2019-09-03T09:57:53.742130+00:00",...    "id": "b3a42fb1-e85c-46e9-b0a6-9adb62278295",    "volume_type": "b_ssd",    "server": null  }}