Ansible Role: iSCSI Initiator

This role configure a linux server as iSCSI initiator using open-iscsi.

This role introduces a modification into open-iscsi community module to enable mutual authentication. Modified module is located in library/open_iscsi.py.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below along with default values (see defaults\main.yaml) To configure the iSCSI initiator, the following variables need to be configured:

• iSCSI initiator iqn

open_iscsi_initiator_name: "iqn.2021-07.com.ricsanfre:{{ ansible_facts['nodename'] }}"

• Configuration of iSCSI daemon. Automatic login and authentication configuration

# open-iscsi configuration
open_iscsi_initiator_name: iqn.2021-07.com.ricsanfre:iscsi-initiator
open_iscsi_authentication: true
open_iscsi_auth_username: iqn.2021-07.com.ricsanfre:iscsi-initiator
open_iscsi_auth_password: s1cret0
open_iscsi_auth_username_in: iqn.2021-07.com.ricsanfre:iscsi-target
open_iscsi_auth_password_in: 0tr0s1cret0
open_iscsi_automatic_startup: true

NOTE: Other parameters of iscsid are available to be configured

• iSCSI Targets to connect to

open_iscsi_targets:
  - name: 'Target'
    discover: true
    auto_portal_startup: true
    auto_node_startup: true
    portal: '196.168.0.1'
    target: 'iqn.2001-04.org.example:target'
    login: true

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

This example use ricsanfre.storage role for creating the logical volumes used to configure the iSCSI target.

The example also shows how to use specific authentication method and credentials per target.

- name: Configure iscsi-client
  hosts: iscsi-initiator
  become: true
  gather_facts: true
  vars:
    open_iscsi_authentication: true
    open_iscsi_automatic_startup: true
    open_iscsi_targets:
      - name: iscsi-target
        discover: true
        auto_portal_startup: true
        auto_node_startup: true
        portal: 192.168.0.11
        target: iqn.2021-07.com.ricsanfre:iscsi-target
        login: true
        node_auth: CHAP
        node_user: iqn.2021-07.com.ricsanfre:iscsi-initiator
        node_pass: s1cret0
        node_user_in: iqn.2021-07.com.ricsanfre:iscsi-target
        node_pass_in: 0tr0s1cret0
  roles:
    - ricsanfre.iscsi_initiator

License

MIT

Author Information

Created by Ricardo Sanchez (ricsanfre)