Ansible Role: Install DateTime

Installs and configures ntp and defines timezone on Debian/Ubuntu linux servers.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

# ntp
datetime_ntp_config_server: [ '0.de.pool.ntp.org', '1.de.pool.ntp.org', '2.de.pool.ntp.org', '3.de.pool.ntp.org' ]

# Access control configuration; see /usr/share/doc/ntp-doc/html/accopt.html
datetime_ntp_config_restrict:
- '-4 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery'
- '-6 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery'
- '127.0.0.1'
- '::1'

datetime_ntp_stats:
  - statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats
  - filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable
  - filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
  - filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable

# Add additional configuration here
datetime_ntp_config_additional: ''

datetime_sync_hardware_clock: true

# timezone
datetime_timezone: 'Europe/Berlin'

# Monit
datetime_enable_monit_check: true

Dependencies

None.

Installation

$ ansible-galaxy install tschifftner.datetime

Example Playbook

- hosts: server
  roles:
    - { role: tschifftner.datetime }

Supported OS

• Debian 9 (Stretch)
• Debian 8 (Jessie)
• Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
• Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

Required ansible version

Ansible 2.5+

License

MIT License

Author Information

• Tobias Schifftner, ambimax® GmbH