Ansible Role: localization

Description

This role configures different aspects of localization under Linux and Windows. It sets the timezone, the default locale and the keyboard layout during input.

Installation

ansible-galaxy install arillso.localization

Requirements

Role Variables

timezone

Linux and Windows use different Timezone formats. Therefore, for each OS a variable is provided for the Timezone

localization_timezone_windows: 'W. Europe Standard Time'
localization_timezone_linux: 'Europe/Zurich'

Alternatively, the variable 'localization_timezone' can be used directly. Make sure to use the correct format.

localization_timezone:

Linux

locale

Default locale. See man 7 locale

localization_default_locale: 'en_US.UTF-8'

console keyboard

Console keyboard layout (sg = swiss german)

localization_keymap: 'sg'

Windows

region

Sets the location, format and unicode language settings of a Windows.

localization_region:
  location: 223
  format: de-CH
  unicode_language: de-CH

keyboard input

Sets the keyboard layout for Windows

localization_inputlang: 0807:00000807

Dependencies

none

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - arillso.localization

Author

• Simon Bärlocher

License

This project is under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for the full license text.

Copyright

(c) 2019, Arillso