Let us take a closer look at ansible how to set timezone Ubuntu and the configurations necessary to set this up with the support of server management support services at Bobcares.

Editing the Timezone File with Ansible in Ubuntu

Using the “contents” option, we may specify the file’s contents as a string. The copy module will ensure that the contents are written in a file with the appropriate file permissions on the remote machine.

Putting the file contents directly in the playbook is, of course, only beneficial when the file contents are brief.

More extensive file contents can be overwhelming to look at when combined with the playbook, therefore we can keep lengthy setups in a separate file.

- name: Update Timezone to Etc/UTC
copy: content="Etc/UTC\n" dest=/etc/timezone owner=root group=root mode=0644
sudo: true
register: timezone

YAML

As we can see, we are only adding one line: “Etc/UTC” followed by a return (newline character) to the file /etc/timezone. The results of the copy module will register in a variable called “timezone” for subsequent usage. As this is a system-wide setting, we require Sudo rights to alter it.

Update and Set the System Timezone in Ubuntu with Ansible

We modified the /etc/timezone file in order for the system to recognize the changes. In this case, we must reconfigure the system with the new timezone information. We can determine when the /etc/timezone file was edited and act accordingly.

- name: Reconfigure Timezone Data
command: dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata
sudo: true
when: timezone.changed

YAML

We can use the “timezone” variable to determine whether or not to conduct this reconfiguration operation when the contents of /etc/timezone have changed. There is no need to reconfigure if the /etc/timezone file has not changed.

To configure Ansible Set the timezone on the Ubuntu host using the command lines listed below:

gistfile1.yml

name: Group by Distribution
hosts: all
tasks: - group_by: key=${ansible_distribution}

- name: Set Time Zone
hosts: Ubuntu
gather_facts: False
tasks: - name: Set timezone variables
copy: content='America/Los_Angeles'
dest=/etc/timezone
owner=root
group=root
mode=0644
backup=yes
notify: - update timezone
handlers: - name: update timezone
command: dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata.

Then to finish the ansible set timezone ubuntu processes to use the gistfile2.sh

:~$ ll /etc/ | grep timezone
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 May 16 06:27 timezone
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 May 16 06:22 timezone.2013-05-16@06:24~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 May 16 06:24 timezone.2013-05-16@06:27~
~$ cat /etc/timezone America/Los_Angeles ~$ cat /etc/timezone.2013-05-16@06:24~
America/Los_Angeles.

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Conclusion

To conclude, we have learned how to set up the configurations for Ansible Set Timezone Ubuntu. With the support of our Server Management support services at Bobcares, we have gone through the entire configuration.