Ansible role which installs and configures ntp.

• Tested on Ansible 2.3 or higher.

• ntp_timezone defaults to UTC
• ntp_driftfile defaults to /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
• ntp_statsdir defaults to /var/log/ntpstats/
• ntp_servers defaults to the following

- "0.pool.ntp.org"
- "1.pool.ntp.org"
- "2.pool.ntp.org"
- "3.pool.ntp.org"

• ntp_auto_update controls whether or not to periodically run ntpdate. Helpful with some troublesome virtual machines. It defaults to no.
• ntp_auto_update_hour determines which hour of the day to periodically run ntpdate. Defaults to 12.
• ntp_leapfile defaults to /etc/ntp.leapseconds
• ntp_leapurl is the URL to retrieve the leap seconds file from. It defaults to https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list.
• ntp_restricts defaults to the following

- "restrict 0.pool.ntp.org nomodify notrap noquery"
- "restrict 1.pool.ntp.org nomodify notrap noquery"
- "restrict 2.pool.ntp.org nomodify notrap noquery"
- "restrict 3.pool.ntp.org nomodify notrap noquery"
- "restrict default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery"
- "restrict 127.0.0.1 nomodify"
- "restrict -6 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery"
- "restrict -6 ::1 nomodify"

This project comes with a VagrantFile, this is a fast and easy way to test changes to the role, fire it up with vagrant up

See vagrant docs for getting setup with vagrant

Licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Are welcome!