EFS client

Mounts EFS volume(s) to specific mount point(s).

The efs_info role for Ansible searches based on the creation_token attribute of a file system. This is usually the same as name but not always!

If your EFS volume was not created by Ansible or via the console but was created automatically, for example by setting up replication to another region, no matter what you set the human-readable name to the creation_token will remain a dynamically generated value, such as destination-5e6b763c-0f8b-4e90-9392-8c83b2453553. It is the creation_token value that matters, not name, so in this case your mount will need to look like this:

  mounts:
    - path: /mnt/shared
      src: destination-5e6b763c-0f8b-4e90-9392-8c83b2453553
      opts: _netdev
      state: present
      owner: root
      group: root

You cannot retrieve the creation_token from the console, you need to use the API, for example:

aws efs describe-file-systems --profile myaccount --region eu-west-1

In the output of listed file systems, for each one you will find an entry like this:

    "CreationToken": "destination-fba829fc-3680-4b7d-be6a-147d02c357b3"

Default variables

---
aws_efs_client:
  aws_profile: "{{ _aws_profile }}"
  region: "{{ _aws_region }}"
  version: 1.26.2 # Version of AWS EFS utils to use.
  # See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/mount_module.html
  mounts:
    - path: /mnt/shared
      src: example-efs # This is the EFS "creation_token" which is not always "name" - read the role docs carefully!
      opts: _netdev # _netdev tells OS to wait for network before attempting to mount
      state: present
      owner: root
      group: root