Ansible role - NTP client configuration and monitor cronjob

This role configures NTP. It also installs a cronjob to check if NTP is still working properly. This is mainly an issue when running an NTP client on a virtual machine.

Requirements

This role requires Ansible 1.4 or higher and platform requirements are listed in the metadata file.

Role Variables

The variables that can be passed to this role and a brief description about them are as follows.

ntp_timezone: /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam

# in default cont, the ntp server will reply to time request, disable to reduce chance of being part of DDOS attacks
ntp_serve_time: true

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Install ntp

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - { repleo.ntp }

License

GPL v3 - (c) 2016, Repleo, Amstelveen

Author Information

Repleo, Amstelveen, Holland -- www.repleo.nl
Jeroen Arnoldus ([email protected])