phase2/ebs-snapshots repository overview

⁠Description

This image provides tooling for managing AWS EBS Snapshots.

Snapshot management provided by automated-ebs-snapshots⁠

⁠Environment Variables

When you start the ebs-snapshots image, you can adjust the configuration of the script by passing environment variables on the docker run command-line, environment file or via your docker-compose manifest file.

⁠EBS_VOLUMES

Required

A semicolon separate list of Volume IDs or the Name tag of volume.

⁠EBS_SNAPSHOT_INTERVAL

Optional Default: daily

Specify how frequently to snapshot the configured volumes

• Options: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly

⁠EBS_SNAPSHOT_RETENTION

Optional Default: 30

Specify the number of snapshots to keep.

⁠AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID / AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY / AWS_REGION

Optional

The AWS Credentials for accessing the snapshot service. If no credentials are set then it will attempt to use Instance Metadata. See Instance Profiles⁠ for information on how to configure IAM Roles/Policies for your EC2 Instances.∏