Mount smb share temprorarily with Ansible using module instead of shell - ansible

Question

I need to mount a smb share to have access on large, shared installation files in Ansible. This works using CLI:
- name: Mount share
become: yes
shell: "mount.cifs {{ smb_share.path }} {{ smb_share.mount_point }} -o user={{ smb_share.user }},password={{ smb_share.password }},mfsymlinks,exec"
However, this has two disadvantages:
Doesn't follow best practices of using modules instead of shell commands when required
No detection if already mounted - I'd need to implement this, e.g. by grep for the mountpoint in mount
There is a mount module in Ansible. But since this share ist just for installation and uses credentials, I don't want to have it permanently mounted. The boot parameter looks what I need, sadly not for Linux:
Determines if the filesystem should be mounted on boot.
Only applies to Solaris systems.
I still tried to set boot: no but as described in the docs, it still creates an /etc/fstab entry with the plain text password.
Is there any alternative to have a Windows share temprorarily mounted on CentOS 7 with any Ansible module?

Answer 1

I am not aware there exist some temp mount specific module in ansible.
But from docs you can use mount module in the next way:
- name: Mount network share
mount:
src: //path/to/windows/share
path: /mnt
fstype: cifs
opts: 'username=example#domain,password=Password1!'
state: mounted
become: true
- name: Unmount network share
mount:
path: /mnt
state: absent
become: true
First task state=mounted will create record in /etc/fstab and mount that network share, and second task state=absent you can use to umount mounted share and remove corresponding record from /etc/fstab. That is the best option that comes to my mind.