aisbergg/ansible-role-chrony

:wrench: An Ansible role to configure Chrony, an alternative NTP implementation.

Ansible Role: aisbergg.chrony

This Ansible role installs and configures Chrony, an alternative NTP implementation.

Requirements

Requires Systemd to be used as the service manager.

Role Variables

Variable	Default	Comments
chrony_service_enabled	true	Enable/Disable the Chrony service
chrony_service_state	started	Set the service state (Possible values: started, reloaded, restarted, stopped)
chrony_service_restart_on_change	true	Restart Chrony service on configuration changes.
chrony_timezone	Europe/Berlin	Set the timezone of the system. A list of available time zones can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
chrony_disable_other_ntp_services	true	If set to true, all other NTP services present on the system will be disabled
chrony_config_server	["0.pool.ntp.org","1.pool.ntp.org","2.pool.ntp.org", "3.pool.ntp.org"]	List of NTP servers to be used as a time source
chrony_config_pool	[]	List of NTP server pools
chrony_config_makestep	1.0 3	Step the system clock if the adjustment is larger than a threshold value
chrony_config_rtcsync	true	Enable kernel synchronization of the real-time clock (RTC)
chrony_config_extra_options	{}	A dict (key-value pairs) of extra config options. A list of available config options can be found here: https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/doc/3.5/chrony.conf.html

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  vars:
    chrony_timezone: Europe/Berlin
    chrony_config_server:
      - 0.arch.pool.ntp.org
      - 1.arch.pool.ntp.org
    chrony_config_extra_options:
      maxupdateskew: 100.0
  roles:
    - chrony

License

MIT

Author Information

Andre Lehmann (aisberg@posteo.de)