Ansible Role: time

DISCLAIMER

After this announcement I will not test on RHEL anymore.

A simple role to set timezone and enable NTP (Chrony). Nothing sophisticated and not very configurable, but it's all I need :)

Requirements

The package tzdata must be installed. I think only containers don't have it already installed by default.

Role Variables

Default values defined in defaults/main.yml

config_timezone: Etc/UTC

The wanted timezone.

custom_ntp_server: ~

If present, configure a preferred ntp server.

The chrony config file path is different for RedHat and Debian, so it is configured in a distro specific variable file:

# Debian
chrony_conf_path: /etc/chrony/chrony.conf
# RedHat
chrony_conf_path: /etc/chrony.conf

Dependencies

The role use the community.general.timezone module, so the community.general collection must be available.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  vars:
    config_timezone: Europe/Rome
    custom_ntp_server: ntp.example.com
  pre_tasks:
    - name: Ensure tzdata package is installed.
      ansible.builtin.package:
        name: tzdata
        state: present
  roles:
    - alecunsolo.time

License

MIT

Notes

Testing with molecule (including the docker images used) is stolen from heavily inspired by Jeff Geerling. Watch his video (and the other ones as well).