Creating a Block Storage volume via the API
Reviewed on 13 June 2023 • Published on 10 January 2020
Security & Identity (IAM):
You may need certain IAM permissions to carry out some actions described on this page. This means:
- you are the Owner of the Scaleway Organization in which the actions will be carried out, or
- you are an IAM user of the Organization, with a policy granting you the necessary permission sets
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}}
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