Ansible Role: Chrony

An Ansible Role to install and configure the chrony daemon on Linux.

Requirements

Name	Version	Notes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	7,8,9	NA
Ansible	2.9+	NA

Role Variables

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

# Specifies an NTP server which can be used as a time source.
chrony_ntp_servers: []
# Used to specify a pool of NTP servers rather than a single NTP server.
chrony_ntp_pools: []
# Specifies a symmetric association with an NTP peer instead of a client/server association with an NTP server.
chrony_ntp_peers: 
  - 192.168.0.11 iburst
  - 192.168.0.12 iburst
# Enables a local reference mode, which allows chronyd operating as an NTP server when no real time source is available.
chrony_is_local: true 
# Designate a particular subnet from which NTP clients are allowed to access the NTP server.
chrony_allow_networks:
  - 192.168.0.0/16
# Location of the file containing symmetric keys which are shared between NTP servers and clients, or peers.
chrony_keyfile: /etc/chrony.keys

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - { role: acavella.chrony }

License

GNU General Public License v3.0

Author Information

This role was created in 2023 by Tony Cavella