mount

Create the needed directory and mount a network share or other thing into it.

This role was created to fill a need for placing built ISO files from CI/CD into a file share which was in turn mounted as a datastore in vSphere. This allowed easy use of the vsphere-iso Packer plugin instead of using vmware-iso because the needed ISO was already available to any VMs. There was no need to download the ISO locally to the machine running Packer.

For information about PTA and how to use it with this Ansible role please visit https://github.com/Forcepoint/fp-pta-overview/blob/master/README.md

Requirements

None

Role Variables

REQUIRED

mount_local_path: The local path to where the mount should go.
mount_local_user: A local user to chown the mount path.
mount_local_group: A local group to chown the mount path.
mount_target_path: The mount target (i.e. a network share).
mount_target_username: The username (hopefully vaulted) for the mount target (i.e. a network share).
mount_target_password: The password (hopefully vaulted) for the mount target (i.e. a network share).
mount_credential_path: The path to where the credential file containing the share username and password. A file is used instead of coding the creds into fstab directly because fstab is readable by all users. The credential file will be owned by root, so placing it under the /root directory is a good idea.
mount_fstype: The mount type (i.e. cifs).
mount_options: Options for the mount command.

OPTIONAL

mount_yum_packages: Additional yum packages to install for your mounting needs (i.e. cifs-utils).

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  vars:
    mount_local_path: /mnt/foobar/
    mount_local_user: service
    mount_local_group: service
    mount_target_path: //server.company.com/foobar/
    mount_target_username: "builds"
    mount_target_password: "SuPeRsEcReT"
    mount_credential_path: /root/.credential_mount_foobar
    mount_fstype: cifs
    mount_options: "credentials={{ mount_credential_path }},uid=1000,gid=1000,domain=BLAH"
    mount_yum_packages:
      - cifs-utils
      - rclone
  roles:
     - role: mount

License

BSD-3-Clause

Author Information

Jeremy Cornett jeremy.cornett@forcepoint.com