Selfhosted

There's always the command escape hatch. Ultimately the roles you'll use will probably do the same. Even a plugin would do the same, all the ZFS tooling eventually shells to the zfs/zpool, probably same with btrfs. Those are just very complex filesystems, it would be unreliable to reimplement them in Python.

We use tools to solve problems, not make it harder for no reason. That's why command/shell actions exist: sometimes it's just better to go that way.

You can always make your own plugin for it, but you're still just writing extra code to eventually still shell out into the commands and parse their output.

You can use the parted module for partitioning

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/parted_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-parted-module

Format with BTRFS or many others

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/filesystem_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-filesystem-module

These might come in handy:

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/btrfs_info_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-btrfs-info-module
• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/btrfs_subvolume_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-btrfs-subvolume-module

For ZFS, I'm not familiar but I found

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/zpool_facts_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-zpool-facts-module

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/zfs_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-zfs-module

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/zfs_facts_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-zfs-facts-module

Here's the index of all modules: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/index_module.html

For one, use BTRFS as it is built in and doesn't break with updates. (Btrfs does have limitations)

For ansible, just format the disks from the command line. (You can run commands from ansible)