This role configures a general-purpose CVMFS client on RPM-based systems. Refer to https://cernvm.cern.ch/portal/filesystem for more general information on CVMFS. Refer to Accessing CVMFS for more information on Compute Canada CVMFS.
See defaults/main.yml.
The following features are supported:
- Static repository mounts (using
/etc/fstab) as well as the more standard method of dynamically mounting repositories using autofs - Automatically reload configuration when the configuration file is updated
- Setting the autofs timeout
- Optional fuse3 installation
- Optionally creating a dedicated volume group, logical volume, and filesystem for the CVMFS cache
- Automatic testing and configuration validation
- Creating a CVMFS user and group with a specific UID/GID if desired (recommended for alien cache use)
- Modular installation of CVMFS configuration packages
- Support for applying any arbitrary client configuration setting
Provided by Compute Canada under the GPLv2 license.
---
- hosts: my_nodes
roles:
- ansible-cvmfs-client
vars:
cvmfs_cache_size: "40000"
cvmfs_http_proxy: "http://cache1.example.org:3128|http://cache2.example.org:3128"
become: yes
become_user: root