Ansible Role: autofs

This role installs and sets up autofs.

Requirements

# You need Ansible version 1.4.4 or higher
ansible --version

# Operating System
case $OSTYPE in
  # For Linux, you need either apt, yum, dnf, or zypper
  "linux"*)
      apt --version || yum --version || dnf --version || zypper --version;;
  # For OS X, no additional requirements
  "darwin"*)
      echo autofs is available out of the box;;
esac

Role Variables

# --- Configuration for autofs ---
autofs_indirect_maps:
  - name: autofs.nfs
    path: /mnt/nfs
    mark: "There to ensure actions are repeatable"
    options: "--timeout=30 --ghost"
    mounts:
      - name: "isos"
        fstype: "nfs,rw,bg,hard,intr,tcp,resvport"
        url: "nfs.server.com:/data/isos"

# --- OS setup ---
# No need to change this
autofs_pkgs:
  Linux: [ 'autofs' ]
  Darwin: []

# --- OS configuration ---
# No need to change this
autofs_master:
  Linux: "/etc/auto.master"
  Darwin: "/etc/auto_master"

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- name: "Media Client"
  hosts: clients.media
  roles:
    - name: "Media Client | NFS | ensure automounts"
      become: true
      become_method: sudo
      role: cmprescott.autofs
      autofs_indirect_maps:

        - name: "auto.nfs-nas"
          path: "/mnt/nfs"
          mark: "NFS mounts from NAS"
          options: "--timeout=30 --ghost"
          mounts:
            - name: "movies"
              fstype: "nfs,rw,bg,hard,intr,tcp,resvport"
              url: "nfs.server.com:/data/movies"
            - name: "tv"
              fstype: "nfs,rw,bg,hard,intr,tcp,resvport"
              url: "nfs.server.com:/data/tv"

        - name: "auto.nfs-other"
          path: "/-"
          mark: "NFS mount using root base"
          options: "--timeout=30 --ghost"
          mounts:
            - name: "/var/remotedir"
              fstype: "nfs,rw,bg,hard,intr,tcp,resvport"
              url: "nfs.server.com:/data/remotedir"

License

BSD

Author Information

Prescott Chris