Create Qnap Luns - Ansible Playbook

This is a quick and dirty appraoch to automating the creation of an iSCSI target and LUNS on a qnap NAS.

Prerequisites:

• Ansible
• Python installed on the NAS via the App Center (QPKG)

Ensure the host where ansible is running has ssh access to the QNAP NAS:

ssh-copy-id admin@MYNASHOSTNAME

Python in App Center:

How does this work?

The playbook uses the qcli* utilities available on the QNAP NAS in order to perform the actions of creating a new iSCSI target and creating Luns.

Also please note the inventory file has ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/local/bin/python - so that we point to the correct python location on the QNAP NAS.

How do I run it?

Make sure the inventory and the vars/sample-vars.yml are configured as you wish, then run:

ansible-playbook -i inventory create-qnap-luns.yml

Why?

I'm using this to automate the provisioning of external storage for Openshift clusters, but in the main WHY NOT?!