Ansible Role: serdigital64.storage.stg_autofs¶

Purpose¶

Manage the AutoFS service

Supported features in the current version:

• Prepare environment for application deployment:
  • Create shared root path for mount points
• Deploy service. Packages are defined in the variable stg_autofs_profiles.
• Control service subsystem services. Services are defined in the variable stg_autofs_subsystems.
• Configure service subsystem server.
• Provision service components.
  • Add autofs maps

The stg_autofs Ansible-Role is part of the A:Platform64 project and is available in the storage Ansible-Collection.

Usage¶

The following example is an Ansible Playbook that includes all the supported features:

use this link if viewing the doc on github

---
- name: "Storage / AutoFS / Usage example"
  hosts: "localhost"
  gather_facts: true

  tasks:
    - name: "Example: install AutoFS, configure service and provision map"
      vars:
        stg_autofs:
          resolve_prereq: true
          deploy: true
          setup: true
          control: true
          provision: true
        stg_autofs_maps:
          - name: "test"
            mount: "test"
            shares:
              - source: "test_source"
                target: "test_target"
                options: "ro"
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: "serdigital64.storage.stg_autofs"
...

The playbook can be run by executing:

# Set ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS to the default location. Change as needed.
ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS="${HOME}/.ansible/collections"
ansible-playbook "${ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS}/ansible_collections/serdigital64/storage/playbooks/stg_autofs.yml"

Role Parameters¶

Actions¶

• Use action-parameters to control what tasks are enabled for the role to execute.
• Parameters should be declared as task level vars as they are intented to be dynamic.

stg_autofs:
  resolve_prereq:
  prepare:
  deploy:
  setup:
  control:
  provision:

End State¶

• Use end-state parameters to define the target state after role execution.
• Parameters should be declared in host_vars or group_vars as they are intended to be permanent.

stg_autofs_service:
  name:
  type:
  version:
  installed:
stg_autofs_subsystem:
  enabled:
  status:
stg_autofs_server_options:
  root:
  timeout:
  logging:
stg_autofs_maps:
  - name:
    mount:
    shares:
      - source:
        target:
        options:

Deployment¶

OS Compatibility¶

The operating system compatibility list is defined in the variable: stg_autofs_platforms

Dependencies¶

• Ansible Collections:
  • serdigital64.backup
    • bkp_archive
  • serdigital64.system
    • sys_package
    • sys_repository
  • serdigital64.storage
    • stg_nfs_client

Prerequisites¶

The Ansible engine must be already installed and configured for privileged access and remote execution.

In addition the following prerequisites can be automatically solved when running the playbook by setting the role action: resolve_prereq: true

• Package manager for the target service is installed and enabled.

Installation Procedure¶

Manually install Ansible Collections from the Ansible Galaxy repository:

ansible-galaxy collection install serdigital64.storage

Automatic installation is also available by deploying A:Platform64

Contributing¶

Help on implementing new features and maintaining the code base is welcomed.

Please see the guidelines for further details.

Author¶

• SerDigital64

License¶

Apache-2.0