Add NTP Sever to client with Ansible

##1## Login to Prometheus server, because ansible provisioning from this server

Go to directory /home/ops/.ansible/roles/ntp and edit, vi /tasks/main.yml

- name: Install required packages

apt:

state: present

pkg: “{{ harden_linux_required_packages }}”

retries: 2

delay: 5

tags:

- ntpdate

- name: Set Time to your Zone

shell: “timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Jakarta”

- name: Add NTP Server

lineinfile:

line: “{{ server_ntp_uii }}”

path: /etc/ntp.conf

- name: Restart NTP

service:

name=ntp

state=restarted

enabled=yes

- name: Comment ntp.conf

lineinfile:

dest: “/etc/ntp.conf”

regexp: “{{ item }}”

line: “{{ harden_linux_ntp_settings[item] }}”

state: “present”

with_items:

- “{{ harden_linux_ntp_settings | list }}”

tags:

- ntp

- name: Check NTP

command: “ntpq -ps”

register: is_inactive

- name: Print Status

debug:

var: is_inactive.stdout

##2## Add ip host /etc/ansible/hosts , vi /etc/ansible/hosts

You can create group if you manage many host,

Define username, password nodes, and ssh port, you can refer to image below,

##3## go to directory /home/ops/.ansible/roles/ntp and edit vi ntp.yml

Hosts are group that we define earlier

Become its mean we become sudo user,

Roles is role that role we create earlier

##4## Run ansible with

Ansible-playbook ntp.yml

Make sure the host has python installed