adding mergerfs balance

playbooks/setup-homelab.yml

@@ -78,13 +78,13 @@
       with_items:  "{{ portainer_roles }}"
 
 
-#- name: Setup and deploy templated portainer services.
+- name: Setup and deploy templated portainer services.
-#  hosts: servers
+  hosts: servers
-#  become: true
+  become: true
-#  pre_tasks:
+  pre_tasks:
-#    - name: Include vault variables.
+    - name: Include vault variables.
-#      ansible.builtin.include_vars: '../{{ vault_file }}'
+      ansible.builtin.include_vars: '../{{ vault_file }}'
-#      tags: [always]
+      tags: [always]
-#  roles:
+  roles:
-#    - role: setup_hosted_services
+    - role: setup_hosted_services
-#      tags: [services]
+      tags: [services]

roles/setup_mergerfs/tasks/main.yml

@@ -34,3 +34,20 @@
     name: sprat.mergerfs
   vars:
     mergerfs_mounts: '{{ mounts }}'
+
+- name: Download mergerfs balance tool.
+  ansible.builtin.get_url:
+    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trapexit/mergerfs-tools/master/src/mergerfs.balance
+    dest: /usr/local/bin/mergerfs.balance
+    mode: 0755
+
+- name: Add a cron job to balance mergerfs.
+  ansible.builtin.cron:
+    name: Balance mergerfs media.
+    user: "{{ homelab_user }}"
+    minute: 0
+    hour: 5
+    weekday: 0
+    job: /usr/local/bin/mergerfs.balance /mnt/mergerfs
+    state: present
+    cron_file: balance_mergerfs