"Detach" an AWS instance from Vagrant

[Christophe Pettus]

Hi,

I've started to use Vagrant to provision real live production machines, but I live in fear that I will issue a vagrant destroy in the wrong directory. Is there a standard way of "detaching" an instance from a VagrantFile instance so that it can go about its business and I can provision anew... or is there a better way to handle this particular situation?

Thanks!
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[Mike Ryan]

Hi Christophe,

Deleting the .vagrant/machines/default/aws/id file might do what you are looking for - once you do that, vagrant status will show 'not created' and you should be able to provision a new instance. This feels a bit hacky though, there might be a cleaner solution.

It is possible to protect instances from being terminated via the API - this won't let you provision new machines from the same Vagrantfile, but it will render vagrant destroy harmless if you do run it in the wrong dir.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_ChangingDisableAPITermination.html

Mike

[Torben Knerr]

On Jul 26, 2013 5:19 PM, "Mike Ryan" <mi...@fadedink.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Christophe,
>
> Deleting the .vagrant/machines/default/aws/id file might do what you are looking for - once you do that, vagrant status will show 'not created' and you should be able to provision a new instance. This feels a bit hacky though, there might be a cleaner solution.
>
> It is possible to protect instances from being terminated via the API - this won't let you provision new machines from the same Vagrantfile, but it will render vagrant destroy harmless if you do run it in the wrong dir.
>
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_ChangingDisableAPITermination.html

Is this option exposed via the vagrant-aws provider?

>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Friday, July 26, 2013 4:32:19 AM UTC+2, Christophe Pettus wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've started to use Vagrant to provision real live production machines, but I live in fear that I will issue a vagrant destroy in the wrong directory.  Is there a standard way of "detaching" an instance from a VagrantFile instance so that it can go about its business and I can provision anew... or is there a better way to handle this particular situation?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> -- Christophe Pettus
>>    x...@thebuild.com
>>

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[Mike Ryan]

No, presently it needs to be done through the EC2 API or Web Console. This might be a useful future addition:

vagrant protect-instance
vagrant unprotect-instance

... or something similar.

Torben Knerr

July 27, 2013 8:58 AM

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Mike Ryan

July 26, 2013 1:52 PM

Hi Christophe,

Deleting the .vagrant/machines/default/aws/id file might do what you are looking for - once you do that, vagrant status will show 'not created' and you should be able to provision a new instance. This feels a bit hacky though, there might be a cleaner solution.

It is possible to protect instances from being terminated via the API - this won't let you provision new machines from the same Vagrantfile, but it will render vagrant destroy harmless if you do run it in the wrong dir.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_ChangingDisableAPITermination.html

Mike

On Friday, July 26, 2013 4:32:19 AM UTC+2, Christophe Pettus wrote:

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