Ansible systemd_service

This Ansible role that installs and configures systemd unit files and all of its corresponding services. This role requires the openstack-ansible-plugins repository to be available on your local system. The Ansible galaxy resolver will not retrieve this role for you. To get this role in place clone the plugins repository before installing this role.

# git clone https://github.com/openstack/openstack-ansible-plugins /etc/ansible/roles/plugins

Release notes for the project can be found at: https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ansible-role-systemd_service

You can also use the ansible-galaxy command on the ansible-role-requirements.yml file.

# ansible-galaxy install -r ansible-role-requirements.yml

---

Example playbook

- name: Create a systemd unit file for ServiceX
  hosts: localhost
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: "systemd_service"
      systemd_services:
        # Normal Service
        - service_name: ServiceX
          execstarts:
            - /path/ServiceX --flag1

        # Timer Service (AKA CRON)
        - service_name: TimerServiceX
          execstarts:
            - /path/TimerServiceX --flag1
          timer:
            state: "started"
            options:
              OnBootSec: 30min
              OnUnitActiveSec: 1h
              Persistent: true
      tags:
        - servicex-init