ansible/roles/nfs-client/tasks/main.yml

---
# Install NFS client, mount distant storage and add configuration to fstab to make it persistent
- name: Install NFS client
  apt:
    name:
      - nfs-common  # use this on any NFS machine, be either client or server
    update_cache: true

- name: Create mountable dir
  file:
    path: "{{ nfs.mount-path }}"
    state: directory
    mode: 0644
    owner: "{{ nfs.dir-owner }}"
    group: "{{ nfs.dir-group }}"

- name: Mount and add to fstab
  mount:
    state: mounted  # actively mounted and configured in fstab
    src: "{{ nfs.src }}"
    path: "{{ nfs.mount-path }}"
    fstype: nfs
    opts: defaults
# don't specify dump and fsck to keep the 0 (don't) variable