Services : Chrony role

The purpose of this role is to install, configure and enable the chrony service. This role is part of the STARTX services ansible collection.

Requirements

• Ansible runtime
• Installation of the startx services collection with ansible-galaxy collection install startxfr.services

Role Variables

Key	Default	Description
ss_chrony_action	create	The action to perform
ss_chrony_release	latest	chrony version to install
ss_chrony_config_file	/etc/chrony.conf	chrony configuration file

Dependencies

Depend only on ansible.builtin

Example playbooks

Install chrony playbook

Install chrony service default version.

- name: Install chrony service
  hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: startxfr.services.chrony

Install chrony version 4.2-1” playbook

Install chrony service 4.2-1” version.

- name: Install chrony service in version 4.2-1"
  hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: startxfr.services.chrony
      ss_chrony_release: "4.2-1"

Uninstall chrony playbook

Uninstall chrony service.

- name: Uninstall chrony service
  hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: startxfr.services.chrony
      ss_chrony_action: "delete"