New release Ansible role stafwag.ntpd, and clean up Ansible roles

I made some time to give some love to my own projects and spent some time rewriting the Ansible role stafwag.ntpd and cleaning up some other Ansible roles.

There is some work ongoing for some other Ansible roles/projects, but this might be a topic for some other blog post(s) ;-)

stafwag.ntpd

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An ansible role to configure ntpd/chrony/systemd-timesyncd.

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This might be controversial, but I decided to add support for chrony and systemd-timesyncd. Ntpd is still supported and the default on the BSDs ( FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD).

It’s possible to switch from the ntp implementation by using the ntpd.provider directive.

The Ansible role stafwag.ntpd v2.0.0 is available at:

• https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-ntpd
• https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/standalone/roles/stafwag/ntpd/

Release notes

V2.0.0

• Added support for chrony and systemd-timesyncd on GNU/Linux
  • systemd-timesynced is the default on Debian GNU/Linux 12+ and Archlinux
  • ntpd is the default on all operating systems (BSDs, Solaris) and Debian GNU/Linux 10 and 11
  • chrony is the default on all other GNU/Linux distributes
  • For ntpd hash as the input for the role.
  • Updated README
  • CleanUp

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stafwag.ntpdate

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An ansible role to activate the ntpdate service on FreeBSD and NetBSD.

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The ntpdate service is used on FreeBSD and NetBSD to sync the time during the system boot-up. On most Linux distributions this is handled by chronyd or systemd-timesyncd now. The OpenBSD ntpd implementation OpenNTPD also has support to sync the time during the system boot-up.

The role is available at:

• https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-ntpdate
• https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/standalone/roles/stafwag/ntpdate/

Release notes

V1.0.0

• Initial release on Ansible Galaxy
  • Added support for NetBSD

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stafwag.libvirt

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An ansible role to install libvirt/KVM packages and enable the libvirtd service.

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The role is available at:

• https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-libvirt
• https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/standalone/roles/stafwag/libvirt/

Release notes

V1.1.3

• Force bash for shell execution on Ubuntu.
  • Force bash for shell execution on Ubuntu. As the default dash shell doesn’t support pipefail.

V1.1.2

• CleanUp
  • Corrected ansible-lint errors
  • Removed install task “install/.yml’”;
    • This was introduced to support Kali Linux, Kali Linux is reported as “Debian” now.
    • It isn’t used in this role
  • Removed invalid CentOS-8.yml softlink
    • Removed invalid soft link, Centos 8 should be catched by
    • RedHat-yum.yml

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stafwag.cloud_localds

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An ansible role to create cloud-init config disk images. This role is a wrapper around the cloud-localds command.

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It’s still planned to add support for distributions that don’t have cloud-localds as part of their official package repositories like RedHat 8+.

See the GitHub issue: https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-cloud_localds/issues/7

The role is available at:

• https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-cloud_localds/
• https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/standalone/roles/stafwag/cloud_localds/

Release notes

V2.1.3

• CleanUp
  • Switched to vars and package to install the required packages
  • Corrected ansible-lint errors
  • Added more examples

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stafwag.qemu_img

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An ansible role to create QEMU disk images.

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The role is available at:

• https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-qemu_img
• https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/standalone/roles/stafwag/qemu_img/

Release notes

V2.3.0

• CleanUp Release
  • Added doc/examples
  • Updated meta data
  • Switched to vars and package to install the required packages
  • Corrected ansible-lint errors

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stafwag.virt_install_import

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An ansible role to import virtual machine with the virt-install import command

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The role is available at:

• https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-virt_install_import
• https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/standalone/roles/stafwag/virt_install_import/

Release notes

• Use var and package to install pkgs
  • v1.2.1 wasn’t merged correctly. The release should fix it…
  • Switched to var and package to install the required packages
  • Updated meta data
  • Updated documentation and include examples
  • Corrected ansible-lint errors

Have fun!