chore: add timesyncd support

this change will ensure that we're using timesyncd when configuring hosts.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Carter <[email protected]>

ansible/inventory/genestack/group_vars/all/all.yml

@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ kube_webhook_token_auth_url_skip_tls_verify: false
 
 ## NTP Settings
 # Start the ntpd or chrony service and enable it at system boot.
-ntp_enabled: true
-ntp_manage_config: true
+ntp_enabled: false
+ntp_manage_config: false
 ntp_servers:
   - "0.pool.ntp.org iburst"
   - "1.pool.ntp.org iburst"

ansible/roles/host_setup/defaults/main.yml

@@ -128,3 +128,8 @@ host_specific_kernel_modules: []
 # Optional user defined list of sysctl options in the same dict item format as
 # above.
 user_kernel_options: []
+
+# Limited to two servers, the first one is the primary and the second one is the backup.
+host_ntp_server:
+  - 0.pool.ntp.org
+  - 1.pool.ntp.org

ansible/roles/host_setup/handlers/main.yml

@@ -38,3 +38,9 @@
     name: "queue_max.service"
     state: "restarted"
     enabled: true
+
+- name: Reload systemd-timesyncd
+  ansible.builtin.systemd:
+    name: systemd-timesyncd
+    state: reloaded
+    enabled: true

ansible/roles/host_setup/tasks/configure_hosts.yml

@@ -78,3 +78,17 @@
     dest: /etc/systemd/system/queue_max.service
     mode: "0644"
   notify: Load and start queue_max service
+
+- name: Ensure timesyncd is running
+  ansible.builtin.service:
+    name: systemd-timesyncd
+    state: started
+    enabled: true
+  notify: Reload systemd-timesyncd
+
+- name: Create systemd-timesyncd configuration file
+  ansible.builtin.copy:
+    src: timesyncd.conf
+    dest: /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf
+    mode: "0644"
+  notify: Reload systemd-timesyncd

ansible/roles/host_setup/tasks/main.yml

@@ -121,12 +121,3 @@
   until: install_packages is success
   retries: 5
   delay: 2
-
-# this is added to remove conflicts with systemd-timesyncd and ntpsec with kubespray installation
-- name: Ensure conflicting time synchronization packages are removed
-  package:
-    name:
-      - ntpsec
-      - systemd-timesyncd
-    state: absent
-    purge: yes

ansible/roles/host_setup/templates/timesyncd.conf.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[Time]
+NTP={{ host_ntp_server | first }}
+FallbackNTP={{ host_ntp_server | last }}
+#RootDistanceMaxSec=5
+#PollIntervalMinSec=32
+#PollIntervalMaxSec=2048
+#ConnectionRetrySec=30
+#SaveIntervalSec=60

ansible/roles/host_setup/vars/ubuntu.yml

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ _host_distro_packages:
   - rsync
   - software-properties-common
   - sysstat
+  - systemd-timesyncd
   - time
   - vlan
   - wget