ansible-role-chrony's Introduction

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