automation: advanced ansible support

[piyoki]

Summary

I would like to contribute the followings:

• Introduce a dedicated ansible-collection that includes roles for high-level automation tasks.
• Create a dedicated page for showcasing ansible automation use cases.

[piyoki]

@zhijian-pro @Suave How do you guys think?

[davies]

Cool, that's really helpful, please go ahead.

[timfeirg]

Really appreciate this kind of contribution!

Introduce a dedicated ansible-collection that includes roles for high-level automation tasks.

It'd help to list what you're planning to improve (or features to add) specifically, we can take a peek and give advices.

For example one may find it useful to include an ansible task to add JuiceFS mount to /etc/fstab, and there's a specific cli feature developed for that (see pending docs pr).

[piyoki]

The following link is some of the work I've done in the past regarding ansible-galaxy-collection, so maybe we can start from here - https://github.com/techprober/galaxy-collections

For instance, a role to explicitly define hosts in local minio config file - https://github.com/techprober/galaxy-collections/tree/master/collections/minio/roles/set_alias

cc @davies @timfeirg

[timfeirg]

If you'd like to share your ansible work that people can just grab and use, consider adding a link in community integrations or user articles, and maybe also reference them directly in other doc sections as you see fit.

If you'd like to create dedicated documentation on deploying JuiceFS with ansible-galaxy, you could create a page under the "deployment" section, write in whatever language you prefer and we can help with the translation.

[piyoki]

If you'd like to share your ansible work that people can just grab and use, consider adding a link in community integrations or user articles, and maybe also reference them directly in other doc sections as you see fit.

If you'd like to create dedicated documentation on deploying JuiceFS with ansible-galaxy, you could create a page under the "deployment" section, write in whatever language you prefer and we can help with the translation.

Thanks for the information. I will keep you guys updated along the way.

[timfeirg]

FYI we're planning on copying content from https://juicefs.com/docs/zh/cloud/automation/#ansible to CE docs, will probably put under this chapter.

[piyoki]

Yah sure. I will contribute once I got a solid blueprint for this.