Creating a AWS Cloudwatch Event Rule to backup EBS volumes

[Keir Badger]

Hi

Using Terraform is it possible to create a Cloudwatch rule that runs a scheduled 'create snapshot' on a particular volume

Had a good look at the docs and online but cant seem to find the correct syntax

Thanks for any help

Rgds

Keir

Details of a Rule and Target from one manually created 

Rule

        {

            "State": "ENABLED",

            "ScheduleExpression": "rate(1 hour)",

            "Name": "backup-devops-diskstore",

            "Arn": "arn:aws:events:eu-central-1:498606453616:rule/backup-devops-diskstore",

            "Description": "backup-devops-diskstore"

        }

Target

    "Targets": [

        {

            "Input": "\"arn:aws:ec2:eu-central-1:1234567890:volume/vol-12345678\"",

            "Id": "Id372662439390",

            "Arn": "arn:aws:automation:eu-central-1:1234567890:action/EBSCreateSnapshot/EBSCreateSnapshot_backup-devops-diskstore"

        }

    ]

[Keir Badger]

 I get this far - cant figure out how to gt input and arn for the event target and not even sure if I am on the right track

Cheers

Keir 

resource "aws_cloudwatch_event_rule" "console" {

  name = "every-hour"

  description = "every hour"

  schedule_expression="rate(1 hour)"

}

resource "aws_cloudwatch_event_target" "backup" {

  rule = "${aws_cloudwatch_event_rule.console.name}"

  arn = ???

  input = ????

} 

[Franck Ratier]

Hi Keir,

I was looking at this too but it seems you can only do it via the AWS Console as stated here:

Creating rules with built-in targets is supported only in the AWS Management Console.

Cheers,

Franck