[sevagh]

We ran into similar issues. From there I went one step further and wrote a tool to do the attachments for me (instead of using Terraform's aws_volume_attachment):

https://github.com/sevagh/goat

This way in Terraform I provision a group of volumes, a group of instances, and rely on `goat` to do the rest.

[kalmar]

That's pretty cool. So is the model that you don't manage the volumes in TF at all?

(Btw I think I know people you know... also in Montreal and I know a couple folks at AdGear!)

[sevagh]

That's cool, I'll ask my coworkers.

And yes this way I keep EBS and the rest of my recipes as far away as possible.

Something like:

``` kafka-volumes/ <ebs volumes> terraform.tfstate kafka/ (use local backend ../kafka-volumes/terraform.tfstate) <ec2 instances> ```