A simple ansible playbook for controlling ntpdate job
---
- hosts: nodes
vars:
server: ntp.ubuntu.com
m: "0"
h: "*/6"
dow: "*"
dom: "*"
mon: "*"
state: present
tasks:
- name: update ntpdate job
cron: name=ntpdate job="/usr/sbin/ntpdate {{server}} >> /tmp/ntpdate.log 2>&1"
minute={{m}} hour={{h}} weekday={{dow}} day={{dom}} month={{mon}} state={{state}}
sudo: yes