Increase your instances' storage capacity by attaching additional high-speed volume sizes up to 16TB. Volumes are managed independently of compute instances, so your data persists even if you delete your VM. High-speed NVMe technology delivers leading price performance with a 10x to 20x increase in throughput and up to a 2000x improvement in IOPS (compared with traditional spinning disks).
Programmatically control and manage your infrastructure
Use the Linode API to dynamically create volumes and attach them to compute instances. You can use cURL to access the API from your command line, or take advantage of our API's Python bindings.
If you use Terraform to provision your infrastructure, you can use the “linode_volume” resource to entirely manage your volumes from within your Terraform plan.
After you attach a volume to a compute instance, format it and mount it from inside the instance. This makes the volume's file system available to you.
You can issue a few commands from your SSH connection to mount your volume. If you use a configuration management tool like Salt, Ansible, or Puppet for your instances, you can also manage this mount from your formulas, playbooks, and modules.
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