NTP Cookbook

This will configure the NTP service. It can also correct time offsets.

Platforms

• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Rhel
• Fedora

Attributes

• node['ntp']['aggressive'] (boolean) defaults to true, when true it will stop the NTP service and correct the offset if its above the offset limit on each Chef run
• node['ntp']['offset_limit'] (int) defaults to 100, maximum offset time in milliseconds
• node['ntp']['servers'] (hash) servers to poll for ntp queries

Usage

Here's an example base role that have some NTP configs.

name 'base'
description 'things for our base image!'

override_attributes(
    ...
    'ntp' => {
        'aggressive'   => true,
        'offset_limit' => 100,
        'servers'      => %w(
            1.north-america.pool.ntp.org
            tick.ucla.edu
            ntp.colby.edu
        )
    }
    ...
)

run_list(
    '..., recipe[cop_ntp], ...'
)

NOTE: You will be required to include a depends for this cookbook inside YOUR cookbook's metadata.rb file.

...
depends 'cop_ntp', git: 'git@github.com:copious-cookbooks/ntp.git'
...