Timezone Role for Ansible

This role manages the timezone.

Role Variables

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

# Enable/Disable timezone tasks
timezone_enabled: true

# Default timezone
timezone: Etc/UTC

# Timezone dependent services list 
timezone_dependent_services: []

Examples

1. Configure the timezone with the defaults:

   ---
   # This playbook configures timezone
   
   - name: Configure timezone on all nodes
     hosts: all
     roles:
       - timezone

2. Configure a non-default timezone and services that need to pick up new timezone:

   ---
   # This playbook configures timezone
   
   - name: Configure timezone on all nodes
     hosts: all
     roles:
       - timezone
     vars:
       timezone: America/Chicago
       timezone_dependent_services: [rsyslog, sendmail]

Dependencies

None.

License

MIT