Simple, Concise guide for systemd - unit:mount? ##Caution Noob.##

[ot...@otimm.net]

Hi - I'm building a new environment and will very soon need a level of config management.

I have puppet-server installed. I have an agent installed and ready to go.

The first thing i would like to achieve are some systemd mount services that I have manually working on Centos 7.4.

I'm not sure if I'm best to start from scratch and keep it simple?

or use a module from puppetforge?

I'd love it if someone can point me in the direction of a good guide for something like this?

or a link to some known working methods or examples?

Thank you (o0)

[jcbollinger]

On Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 10:26:53 AM UTC-5, ot...@otimm.net wrote:

Hi - I'm building a new environment and will very soon need a level of config management.

I have puppet-server installed. I have an agent installed and ready to go.

The first thing i would like to achieve are some systemd mount services that I have manually working on Centos 7.4.

Are you aware that the systemd documentation itself says that the preferred way to configure mounts is via /etc/fstab (entries are dynamically converted to mount units at boot).  I'm supposing based on how your describe them that that is not how you've set up your mounts, but you should consider changing course.

 

I'm not sure if I'm best to start from scratch and keep it simple?

It is simple indeed to use Puppet's built-in Mount resource type to manage mounts, and that's what I would recommend. But be aware that on Linux, it will manage them via /etc/fstab.  If you want to directly manage systemd unit files for your mounts then you'll need something else.

 

or use a module from puppetforge?

The only systemd module I recommend from the Forge is eyp/systemd.  I use it myself.  It does not have support for mount units, but if that's what you really want then I'd urge you to consider starting with this or another mature module and adding support for mount units.  That is likely to be easier than starting from scratch, because you will have a framework to build on and examples of how to build what you need.

 

I'd love it if someone can point me in the direction of a good guide for something like this?

or a link to some known working methods or examples?

Generally speaking, the Forge has lots of good examples of modules in general.  I've already mentioned the one I'd point you to for systemd specifically, and I don't think you'll find one for systemd mount units specifically.

John