ansible.softwareraid

softwareraid is an ansible role which:

• installs mdadm
• configures raid devices
• optionally mount the raid devices

Creating the RAID

Put the following in the defaults/main.yml if you are doing a local playbook else, in the playbook vars to override the role vars.

Sample Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - jacoelho.softwareraid
  - include_vars: vars_file_with_defined_snippet_below.yml

Variables

software_raid_alerts_email: "[email protected]"
software_raid_create_kwargs: "--run" # force the creation if there are any prompts
software_raid_devices:
- device: /dev/md0
  level: 0
  components:
    - /dev/sdb
    - /dev/sdc
  filesystem_type: "ext4"
  mount_point: "/mnt/volume"
  mount_options: "noatime,noexec,nodiratime"
  dump: 0
  passno: 0
- device: /dev/md1
  level: 1
  components:
    - /dev/sdd
    - /dev/sde

Testing

Test against vagrant. Add a yml file and environment variable in the make file to tell the Vagrantfile what yml config to run.

make test

my updated file contents