systemd_automount

Manage systemd automounts with Puppet

Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Setup - The basics of getting started with systemd_automount
3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
4. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
5. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.

Description

This Puppet module can be used to manage Systemd automount units.

Supported Puppet versions

• Puppet >= 4

Tested OS Versions

Currently only these OS variants are tested, altought other OS distributions with systemd should also work.

• Redhat/CentOS >= 7
• SLES >= 12
• openSUSE Leap >= 42

Usage

Example: Using Code

You can use the funtionality of this module in your own .pp files by using the defined resource type systemd_automount::config. The list of associated parameters can be found here: Parameters

The code below will mount the remote NFSv3 share 192.168.100.1:/share at the local directory /mnt.

 systemd_automount::config { '/mnt' :
  source  => '192.168.100.1:/share',
  fstype  => 'nfs',
  options => 'vers=3'
 } 

Example: Using YAML (Hiera)

The main class systemd_automount provides the parameter mounts which only accecpts a hash value. The list of associated parameters can be found here: Parameters

The following example will mount the remote CIFS/SMB share //192.168.100.1/smb at the local directory /mountpoint1 and the NFS4 share 192.168.200.2:/exports/nfs4 at the directory /mountpoint2.

 systemd_automount::mounts:
   '/mountpoint1':
     'source'  : '//192.168.100.1/smb'
     'fstype'  : 'cifs'
     'running' : 'false'
   '/mountpoint2':
     'source'  : '192.168.200.2:/exports/nfs4'

Reference

Public Classes

systemd_automount

Main class

Parameters

• mounts : This parameter accepts an hash describing one or multiple Systemd automount entries. Have a look at class systemd_automount::config to get informations about the posible parameters.

systemd_automount::config

Realizes the configuration of the systemd automount units

Parameters

• mountpoint : Directory to use as mountpoint for the source device. Type: string Default: undef Example: '/mnt'
• source : Source device or network filesystem Type: string Default: undef Example: 'nfsserver:/my/share', 'cifsserver://share'
• fstype : Filesystem type Type: string Default: nfs4 Example: 'nfs', 'cifs'
• options : Mount options seperated by "," Type: string Default: empty Example: 'sec=krb5p,intr,noacl'
• ensure : Set this parameters value to "absent" to remove the automount entry. Type: string Default: present
• dump : fstab dump entry. See "man fstab". Type: integer Default: 0
• pass : fstab pass entry. See "man fstab". Type: integer Default: 0
• atboot : Set this to "false" if you don't want the filesystem to be active after reboot or when "mount -a" is given. Type: boolean Default: true
• running : Set this to false to disable the systemd mount unit. Type: boolean Default: true

Private Classes

systemd_automount::params

Parameter class. Default parameters are defined here.

Limitations

• This Module is limited to Puppet Version >= 4
• This Module only supports systemd automount configurations

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

Release 0.1.0

Initial version

Release 0.1.1

Bugfixes

• Documentation issues

Release 0.1.2

Bugfixes

• Added PATH to exec statement

Release 0.1.3

Bugfixes

• Documentation issues