Feature request: Lifecycle Management for Amazon EBS Snapshots

[drmaciej]

As per https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-lifecycle-management-for-amazon-ebs-snapshots/.

[bflad]

Dependency pull request submitted: #5211

SDK Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/service/dlm/

It looks like this can be a single new resource, something like:

# Implementation may change during development
resource "aws_dlm_lifecycle_policy" "example" {
  description = ""
  executution_role_arn = ""
  state = ""

  policy_details {
    resource_types = []
    target_tag = {}

    schedule {
      name = ""

      create_rule {
        interval = #
        interval_unit = ""
      }

      retain_rule {
        count = #
      }
    }
  }
}

[tomelliff]

If I get some spare time in the next couple of days I'm going to start on this so I can replace my slightly janky Lambda functions that snapshot EBS volumes across our accounts.

[sagyp]

Is there any update on this feature?

[tomelliff]

Sorry for the delay, company moved office so I've had a busy couple of weeks recently. I started hacking on the resource this morning but I'm seeing a date parsing error from the SDK that is confusing me right now.

Once I work out what's wrong with that then I'll sort updates, fix a bunch of TODO's, generally clear things up then add tests and documentation. Very early WIP is viewable at master...tomelliff:dlm-lifecycle-policy-resource if anyone wants to track progress before I raise a pull request.

If anyone happens to know if there's a way I can handle the SDK attempting to parse the created/modified timestamps wrong (see aws/aws-sdk-go#2100) then it would be good if they could point me in the right direction. Right now it seems like the SDK is wrong but that surprises me and I suspect I must be doing something wrong instead although I'm not sure what.

[bflad]

Support for managing DLM Lifecycle Policies via a new aws_dlm_lifecycle_policy resource has been merged and will release with version 1.43.0 of the AWS provider, likely later today or tomorrow.

Special shout out to @tomelliff for going above and beyond to work with AWS to get the blocking issue resolved! 🚀

[bflad]

This has been released in version 1.43.0 of the AWS provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

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