chrony

chronyd is a daemon for synchronisation of the system clock. It can synchronise the clock with NTP servers, reference clocks (e.g. a GPS receiver), and manual input using wristwatch and keyboard via chronyc. It can also operate as an NTPv4 (RFC 5905) server and peer to provide a time service to other computers in the network.

Bugs

Not able to set time in rhel8 due to bug in rhel8

Version

• 4.0.0 --- Updated for ansible-core 2.16. Removed support for Ubuntu Xenial and Ubuntu Bionic.
• 3.2.0 --- Added Ubuntu Noble support
• 3.1.3 --- Allow Fedora CoreOS 39
• 3.1.2 --- fix checkmode
• 3.1.1 --- bug fix, ansible-lint
• 3.1.0 --- added support for Fedora CoreOS (FCOS 38.x.x.x) but with no tests
• 3.0.1 --- bug fix, ansible-lint
• 3.0.0 --- updated to ansible version 2.12
• 2.3.0 --- added RHEL 9 and CentOS Stream 8 support
• 2.2.0 --- added configuration options to use role for ntp server configuration, including leap second smearing
• 2.1.0 --- add ubuntu jammy and removed centos8 support + rettet noe syntax i meta og template
• 2.0.0 --- remove ubuntu xenial support + add rtcsync and allow config
• 1.5.0 --- add support for setting timezone
• 1.4.0 --- add rhel8 and remove trusty+centos6
• 1.3.0 --- remove ubuntu precise from testing
• 1.2.1 --- fix lint problem
• 1.2.0 --- added ubuntu focal, 20.04
• 1.1.2 --- tested with Ansible 2.9.11
• 1.1.1 --- prepare for github
• 1.1.0 --- ensure NTP traffic on port 123, for firewall purposes
• 1.0.2 --- removed unsupported directive for v3
• 1.0.1 --- fixed restart when config changes
• 1.0.0 --- initial version
• master --- latest development version

Requirements

This role is limited to

• Ubuntu 24.04 - Noble
• Ubuntu 22.04 - Jammy
• Ubuntu 20.04 - Focal
• CentOS 7
• CentOS Stream 8
• RHEL 8
• RHEL 9
• Fedora CoreOS 38
• Fedora CoreOS 39

Role Variables

• chrony_allow_enable --- enable allow config, default false
• chrony_allow --- list of IP addresses/networks allowed to connect to chrony, default [127.0.0.1]
• chrony_disable_ntpd --- disable the old NTP daemon, default true
• chrony_enable --- enable chrony NTP daemon, default true
• chrony_log_enable --- enable logging, default false
• chrony_log --- configure logging (requires chrony_logging_enable set to true), default measurements statistics tracking
• chrony_logdir --- configure log directory (requires chrony_logging_enable set to true), default /var/log/chrony/
• chrony_ntp_servers --- list of NTP servers in use, default ['0.pool.ntp.org', '1.pool.ntp.org', '2.pool.ntp.org', '3.pool.ntp.org']
• chrony_rtcsync --- enable kernel synchronization of the real-time clock (RTC), default false
• chrony_smearing --- enable leap second smearing (should only be used for NTP servers), default false
• chrony_timezone --- timezone for the system. Run timedatectl list-timezones on any systemd system to list available timezones, default UTC

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - role: chrony
       chrony_allow_enable: true
       chrony_allow:
         - 10.10.10.0/24
         - 127.0.0.1
         - ::/0
       chrony_disable_ntpd: true
       chrony_enable: true
       chrony_log_enable: true
       chrony_log: measurements statistics tracking
       chrony_logdir: /var/log/chrony/
       chrony_ntp_servers:
         - 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
         - 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
         - 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
         - 3.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
       chrony_rtcsync: true
       chrony_smearing: true
       chrony_timezone: "Europe/Oslo"

Testing

NOTICE: Fedora CoreOS is tested manually, but currently no automatic tests are added for FCOS.

Test environment for all OSes

cd tests
vagrant up

Rerun role

Run role on all OSes again.

vagrant provision

Debug interactively

This uses cluster ssh to work with all vagrant boxes at the same time.

vagrant ssh-config > ~/.ssh/config
cat ~/.ssh/config | grep ^Host | cut -d\  -f2 | xargs cssh

License

GPLv2

Author Information

Created 2020 by IT Infrastructure at MET Norway Contactpoint: IT Infrastructure Basis Team

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