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Paul Stack 6649b938da provider/aws: Provide the option to skip_destroy on aws_volume_attachment (#9792)
* provider/aws: Provide the option to skip_destroy on
aws_volume_attachment

When you want to attach and detach pre-existing EBS volumes to an
instance, we would do that as follows:

```
resource "aws_instance" "web" {
	ami = "ami-21f78e11"
  availability_zone = "us-west-2a"
	instance_type = "t1.micro"
	tags {
		Name = "HelloWorld"
	}
}

data "aws_ebs_volume" "ebs_volume" {
  filter {
  	name = "size"
  	values = ["${aws_ebs_volume.example.size}"]
  }
  filter {
  	name = "availability-zone"
  	values = ["${aws_ebs_volume.example.availability_zone}"]
  }
  filter {
  	name = "tag:Name"
  	values = ["TestVolume"]
  }
}

resource "aws_volume_attachment" "ebs_att" {
  device_name = "/dev/sdh"
	volume_id = "${data.aws_ebs_volume.ebs_volume.id}"
	instance_id = "${aws_instance.web.id}"
	skip_destroy = true
}
```

The issue here is that when we run a terraform destroy command, the volume tries to get detached from a running instance and goes into a non-responsive state. We would have to force_destroy the volume at that point and risk losing any data on it.

This PR introduces the idea of `skip_destroy` on a volume attachment. tl;dr:

We want the volume to be detached from the instane when the instance itself has been destroyed. This way the normal shut procedures will happen and protect the disk for attachment to another instance

Volume Attachment Tests:

```
% make testacc TEST=./builtin/providers/aws TESTARGS='-run=TestAccAWSVolumeAttachment_'
==> Checking that code complies with gofmt requirements...
go generate $(go list ./... | grep -v /terraform/vendor/)
2016/11/02 00:47:27 Generated command/internal_plugin_list.go
TF_ACC=1 go test ./builtin/providers/aws -v -run=TestAccAWSVolumeAttachment_ -timeout 120m
=== RUN   TestAccAWSVolumeAttachment_basic
--- PASS: TestAccAWSVolumeAttachment_basic (133.49s)
=== RUN   TestAccAWSVolumeAttachment_skipDestroy
--- PASS: TestAccAWSVolumeAttachment_skipDestroy (119.64s)
PASS
ok  	github.com/hashicorp/terraform/builtin/providers/aws	253.158s
```

EBS Volume Tests:

```
% make testacc TEST=./builtin/providers/aws TESTARGS='-run=TestAccAWSEBSVolume_'
==> Checking that code complies with gofmt requirements...
go generate $(go list ./... | grep -v /terraform/vendor/)
2016/11/02 01:00:18 Generated command/internal_plugin_list.go
TF_ACC=1 go test ./builtin/providers/aws -v -run=TestAccAWSEBSVolume_ -timeout 120m
=== RUN   TestAccAWSEBSVolume_importBasic
--- PASS: TestAccAWSEBSVolume_importBasic (26.38s)
=== RUN   TestAccAWSEBSVolume_basic
--- PASS: TestAccAWSEBSVolume_basic (26.86s)
=== RUN   TestAccAWSEBSVolume_NoIops
--- PASS: TestAccAWSEBSVolume_NoIops (27.89s)
=== RUN   TestAccAWSEBSVolume_withTags
--- PASS: TestAccAWSEBSVolume_withTags (26.88s)
PASS
ok  	github.com/hashicorp/terraform/builtin/providers/aws	108.032s
```

* Update volume_attachment.html.markdown
2016-11-02 15:29:37 +00:00
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commands website: clarify ".terraform" location for #7301 2016-11-01 23:01:18 -07:00
configuration terraform: consistent variable values for booleans 2016-10-31 11:22:26 -07:00
import Add google resources to importability docs 2016-10-20 14:44:07 -07:00
internals Update the docs to indicate that `TF_LOG_PLAN` is append now. 2016-10-18 13:10:15 -07:00
modules Added s3 and unarchiving docs (#9677) 2016-10-28 03:36:22 +02:00
plugins Updated Plugins section. (#8235) 2016-08-16 14:21:33 -05:00
providers provider/aws: Provide the option to skip_destroy on aws_volume_attachment (#9792) 2016-11-02 15:29:37 +00:00
provisioners website: Quick pass over some docs pages (#9705) 2016-10-31 08:52:27 +00:00
state Cleanup and expansion of the S3 remote state documentation (#9708) 2016-10-29 12:11:43 +01:00
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