Creating a Block Storage volume via the Instance API

Reviewed on 24 June 2024 • Published on 10 January 2020

Before you start

To complete the actions presented below, you must have:

A Scaleway account logged into the console
Owner status or IAM permissions allowing you to perform actions in the intended Organization
A valid API key

Create a block volume from the API by launching the following command:

curl -q \
  -H "X-Auth-Token: $SECRET_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -X POST \
  -d '{"name": "block-volume-101", "organization": "'$SCW_ORGANIZATION'", "size": 10000000000, "volume_type": "b_ssd"}' \
  https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/fr-par-1/volumes

To retrieve the current status of the block volume, query the volume endpoint.

curl -q \
  -H "X-Auth-Token: $SECRET_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'  \
  https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/fr-par-1/volumes/b3a42fb1-e85c-46e9-b0a6-9adb62278295
{
  "volume": {
    "size": 10000000000,
    "state": "available",
    "name": "block-volume101",
    "modification_date": "2019-09-03T09:57:53.742130+00:00",
...
    "id": "b3a42fb1-e85c-46e9-b0a6-9adb62278295",
    "volume_type": "b_ssd",
    "server": null
  }
}