Ansible Role: NTP

Installs NTP on RedHat/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu Linux servers.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

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

ntp_enabled: true

Whether to start the ntpd service and enable it at system boot. On many virtual machines that run inside a container (like OpenVZ or VirtualBox), it's recommended you don't run the NTP daemon, since the host itself should be set to synchronize time for all it's child VMs.

ntp_timezone: America/Chicago

Set the timezone for your server.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: db-servers
  vars_files:
    - vars/main.yml
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.ntp }

Inside vars/main.yml:

ntp_timezone: America/Chicago

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.