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Dealing with EBS volume hotplug

2 minute read Published: 2015-04-01

EBS volumes are attached to EC2 instances that are running. So if you have a solr instance that starts on boot and needs to use that EBS volume you have a problem. How do you make solr wait for that EBS volume to be ready? How do you format it? How do you make all this idempotent.