Ansible Role: serdigital64.storage.stg_repository

Purpose

Manage file repositories provisioning.

File repositories are simple directory structures that are created as resources for other roles to consume such as NFS servers, GIT servers, Samba servers, etc.

Supported features in the current version:

  • Provision repositories:
    • Create repository owners
      • Users
      • Groups
    • Create repository location
      • Create directory
      • Set ownership
      • Set access permissions

The stg_repository 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:

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---
- name: "Storage / Repository / Usage example"
  hosts: "localhost"
  gather_facts: true
  vars:
    test_stg_repositories_resource:
      base:
        path: "/srv/fs"
        user: "root"
        group: "root"
        mode: "0755"
      test1:
        path: "/srv/fs/test1"
        user: "test1"
        group: "group1"
        mode: "0750"
      test2:
        path: "/srv/fs/test2"
        user: "test2"
        group: "group2"
        mode: "0750"
    test_stg_repositories_users:
      - name: "test1"
        uid: "10000"
        group: "test1"
        shell: "/bin/false"
        groups:
          - "group1"
      - name: "test2"
        uid: "10001"
        group: "test2"
        shell: "/bin/false"
        groups:
          - "group2"
    test_stg_repositories_groups:
      - name: "group1"
        gid: "9000"
      - name: "group2"
        gid: "9001"

  tasks:
    - name: "Example: create owning group and user, create repository"
      vars:
        stg_nfs_reposittory:
          prepare: true
          provision: true
        stg_repositories_users: "{{ test_stg_repositories_users }}"
        stg_repositories_groups: "{{ test_stg_repositories_groups }}"
        stg_repositories_resource: "{{ test_stg_repositories_resource }}"
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: "serdigital64.storage.stg_nfs_reposittory"
...

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_repository.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_repository:
  prepare:
  provision:
Parameter Required? Type Default Purpose / Value
stg_repository.prepare no boolean false Enable creationg of owners
stg_repository.provision no boolean false Enable provisioning of repositories

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_repositories_resources:
  <SHARE>:
    path:
    user:
    group:
    mode:
stg_repositories_users:
  - name:
    uid:
    group:
    shell:
    groups:
      -
stg_repositories_groups:
  - name:
    gid:
Parameter Required? Type Default Purpose / Value
stg_repositories_resources yes(provision) dictionary Repositories catalog
stg_repositories_resources. yes dictionary Repository definition
stg_repositories_resources..path yes string Full path
stg_repositories_resources..user yes string Owning user
stg_repositories_resources..group yes string Owning group
stg_repositories_resources..mode yes string Directory permissions (octal)
stg_repositories_users no list Owning users catalog
stg_repositories_users.0 no list Owning user definition
stg_repositories_users.0.name yes string Login name
stg_repositories_users.0.uid no string User ID
stg_repositories_users.0.group no string Primary group name
stg_repositories_users.0.shell no string Full path to the shell
stg_repositories_users.0.groups no list List of secondary groups
stg_repositories_users.0.groups.0.name no string Group name
stg_repositories_groups no list Owning groups catalog
stg_repositories_groups.0 no list Group definition
stg_repositories_groups.0.name yes string Name
stg_repositories_groups.0.gid no string Group ID

Deployment

OS Compatibility

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

Dependencies

  • Ansible Collections:
    • serdigital64.system
      • sys_user

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 application 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

License

Apache-2.0