Block Storage Attached Live and Honest About Snapshots
Instance snapshots and automatic backups image the primary disk only, block storage has no snapshot of its own, and an attach without live = true reboots the instance. NVMe or HDD by name, attached live, and two outputs that say the volume is in no snapshot, so whatever consumes the module cannot assume a copy exists.
Verification
Static-verifiedPassed: validated and lint-clean (provider-schema-validated for AWS/Azure/GCP; Terraform-language lint elsewhere).
Conformance
- Static validation (fmt · validate · tflint)
- No applicable security policies for this provider
- Plan tests (mocked: validation rules · outputs)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live test pending (no cloud run yet)
Last verified 2026-09-14 · how we verify
Use it from the registry
terraform · opentofumodule "block_storage" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/vultr-block-storage/vultr"
version = "1.0.0"
}Needs a registry token from /account/tokens. The module itself is free; the account is what identifies you. Full setup: registry docs.
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Documentation
vultr-block-storage
Vultr block storage, attached without a reboot, and honest about
snapshots. Works with Terraform and OpenTofu (>= 1.6), vultr provider
>= 2.0, < 3.0.
Instance snapshots and backups cover the instance disk only, and block
storage has no snapshot of its own; included_in_instance_snapshots and
snapshots_available are always false.
live = true attaches without a reboot.
block_type is NVMe (high_perf) or HDD (storage_opt, from 40 GB).
Verification
Static validation runs tofu fmt, init, validate, tflint and checkov.
This module has not yet had a live test, so it is published as statically
validated with its live test pending and does not carry the live-tested mark.
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- Usage
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