ansible-personal/roles/common/tasks/ntp.yml

---
# Hosts running Ubuntu 16.04+ and Debian 9+ use systemd init system and should
# use timedatectl as a network time client instead of the standalone ntp client.

- name: Set timezone
  when: timezone is defined and ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'
  command: /usr/bin/timedatectl set-timezone {{ timezone }}
  tags: timezone

- name: Start and enable systemd's NTP client
  when: ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'
  systemd: name=systemd-timesyncd state=started enabled=yes

- name: Uninstall ntp on modern Ubuntu/Debian
  apt: name=ntp state=absent update_cache=yes
  when: ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'

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roles/common: Add a dedicated playbook for ntp tasks Hosts with systemd should use its NTP client and explicitly remove the `ntp` packages. Hosts with older init systems should use `ntp`. 2016-08-25 13:19:51 +02:00			`---`
roles/common: Update comment in tasks/ntp.yml 2019-07-01 23:12:32 +02:00			`# Hosts running Ubuntu 16.04+ and Debian 9+ use systemd init system and should`
roles/common: Add a dedicated playbook for ntp tasks Hosts with systemd should use its NTP client and explicitly remove the `ntp` packages. Hosts with older init systems should use `ntp`. 2016-08-25 13:19:51 +02:00			`# use timedatectl as a network time client instead of the standalone ntp client.`

			`- name: Set timezone`
			`when: timezone is defined and ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'`
			`command: /usr/bin/timedatectl set-timezone {{ timezone }}`
			`tags: timezone`

roles/common: Use systemd module instead of "service" This was new in Ansible 2.2 but I didn't notice until now. All of our servers are running distributions with systemd so let's just use this. 2017-11-02 17:55:20 +01:00			`- name: Start and enable systemd's NTP client`
roles/common: Add a dedicated playbook for ntp tasks Hosts with systemd should use its NTP client and explicitly remove the `ntp` packages. Hosts with older init systems should use `ntp`. 2016-08-25 13:19:51 +02:00			`when: ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'`
roles/common: Use systemd module instead of "service" This was new in Ansible 2.2 but I didn't notice until now. All of our servers are running distributions with systemd so let's just use this. 2017-11-02 17:55:20 +01:00			`systemd: name=systemd-timesyncd state=started enabled=yes`
roles/common: Add a dedicated playbook for ntp tasks Hosts with systemd should use its NTP client and explicitly remove the `ntp` packages. Hosts with older init systems should use `ntp`. 2016-08-25 13:19:51 +02:00
			`- name: Uninstall ntp on modern Ubuntu/Debian`
			`apt: name=ntp state=absent update_cache=yes`
roles/common: Remove ansible_os_family checks We're only supporting Debian family now so there's no point to check this variable now. 2017-11-05 00:19:28 +01:00			`when: ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'`
roles/common: Add a dedicated playbook for ntp tasks Hosts with systemd should use its NTP client and explicitly remove the `ntp` packages. Hosts with older init systems should use `ntp`. 2016-08-25 13:19:51 +02:00
			`# vim: set ts=2 sw=2:`