A Juju charm for deploying and managing the Chrony NTP server in your systems.
This charm simplifies the configuration and maintenance of chrony across a
range of environments, enabling basic time provision and synchronization with
NTP servers.
In this section, we will deploy the Chrony charm, which can be used as a time source for NTP clients.
You’ll need a workstation, e.g., a laptop, with sufficient resources to launch a virtual machine with 4 CPUs, 8 GB RAM, and 50 GB disk space.
You can follow the tutorial here to set up a test environment for Juju with LXD.
From inside the virtual machine, deploy the Chrony charm using the juju deploy command.
juju deploy chrony --channel latest/edge
When the Chrony charm has finished deployment and installation, it should show the message no time source configured.
Now we can run the juju config command to configure an upstream time source for the Chrony charm. In this example, we will use Ubuntu's time server.
juju config chrony sources=ntp://ntp.ubuntu.com
Shortly after the configuration, the Chrony charm should transition into the active state and be able to provide time to other NTP clients.