There are probably not too many people that need to do disk partitioning and storage space management on a daily basis. For most of us it is something low level that needs to be set up just once and then promptly forgotten.
Strangely enough the Ansible Storage Role can be very useful for both of these groups of people. Here, I would like to try and explain why and how to use it.
Please remember that Storage Role operations are often destructive – the user can easily lose data if he is not being careful. Backup, if possible, think twice if not.
What is Ansible and why should I care?
Imagine you need to update several dozens of systems. This would mean running the same task on multiple machines over and over. Connect to one machine, run the command, wait for it to finish, check the results, connect to another machine…
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