Create Partition using Ansible

Description: Here I have explained, How to Create Partition, Format, and Mount using Ansible

Procedure:

• Ansible uses Parted module to manage the partition. Below is the Yaml file to create a partition of 10GB on drive

### Create partition of 10 GB on /dev/xvdb device and mount on /mnt/storage
---
- name: create partition
  hosts: web
  remote_user: root
  become: yes

  tasks:
  - name: Create a new ext4 primary partition
    parted:
      device: /dev/xvdb
      number: 1
      state: present
      part_start: 2MiB
      part_end: 10GiB
      
  - name: Format the Disk
    filesystem:
      fstype: ext4
      dev: /dev/xvdb1
      
  - name: create the Directory
    file:
      path: /mnt/storage
      state: directory
      mode: '0755'
      
  - name: Mount Prtition
    mount:
      path: /mnt/storage
      src:  /dev/xvdb1
      fstype: ext4
      state: mounted
     

• Verify partition after run playbook