---
- name: Creating a Volume
  hosts: localhost
  become: yes
  tasks: 
    - name: Creating a Volume
      ec2_vol:
        aws_access_key: "{{ lookup('env', 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID') }}"
        aws_secret_key: "{{ lookup('env', 'AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY') }}"
        instance: '<instance-id>'
        volume_size: <volume-size>
        device_name: <device-name> #/dev/xvdf, /dev/xvdb
        region: '<region-name>'
        volume_type: <volume-type>  #example gp2
      register: ec2_vol
 
    - name: Printing the volume information
      debug: var=ec2_vol  
      
    - name: creating mount point (directory) 
      file:
        state: directory
        path: "< path >"
    
    - name: formatting the volume
      filesystem:
        dev: "< MOUNT_VOLUME >"
        fstype: "< VOLUME_FORMAT >" #ext4, ext3 etc
 #the device mount depends on the system

    - name: mounting the filesystem
      mount:
        name: "< path to mount point >"
        src: "< MOUNT_VOLUME >"
        fstype: "< VOLUME_FORMAT >" #ext4, ext3 etc
        state: mounted