diff --git a/roles/chrony/defaults/main.yaml b/roles/chrony/defaults/main.yaml
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+---
+chrony_package_name: 'chrony'
+chrony_package_state: 'present'
+
+chrony_service_name: 'chrony'
+chrony_service_state: 'started'
+chrony_service_enabled: yes
diff --git a/roles/chrony/handlers/main.yaml b/roles/chrony/handlers/main.yaml
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+---
+- name: reload chrony
+  service:
+    name: "{{ chrony_service_name }}"
+    state: reloaded
+  when: chrony_service_enabled
diff --git a/roles/chrony/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/chrony/tasks/main.yaml
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+---
+- name: gather OS specific variables
+  include_vars: "{{ item }} "
+  with_first_found:
+    - "{{ ansible_distribution }}.yaml"
+    - "{{ ansible_os_family }}.yaml"
+
+- name: stop/disable systemd-timesyncd
+  service:
+    name: systemd-timesyncd.service
+    state: stopped
+    enabled: no
+
+- name: install chrony
+  package:
+    name: "{{ chrony_package_name }}"
+    state: "{{ chrony_package_state }}"
+
+- name: configure chrony
+  template:
+    src: chrony.conf.j2
+    dest: /etc/chrony/chrony.conf
+  notify:
+    - reload chrony
+
+- name: start chrony
+  service:
+    name: "{{ chrony_service_name }}"
+    state: "{{ chrony_service_state }}"
+    enabled: "{{ chrony_service_enabled }}"
diff --git a/roles/chrony/templates/chrony.conf.j2 b/roles/chrony/templates/chrony.conf.j2
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+# {{ ansible_managed }}
+
+# Welcome to the chrony configuration file. See chrony.conf(5) for more
+# information about usuable directives.
+
+# This will use (up to):
+# - 4 sources from ntp.ubuntu.com which some are ipv6 enabled
+# - 2 sources from 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org which is ipv6 enabled as well
+# - 1 source from [01].ubuntu.pool.ntp.org each (ipv4 only atm)
+# This means by default, up to 6 dual-stack and up to 2 additional IPv4-only
+# sources will be used.
+# At the same time it retains some protection against one of the entries being
+# down (compare to just using one of the lines). See (LP: #1754358) for the
+# discussion.
+#
+# About using servers from the NTP Pool Project in general see (LP: #104525).
+# Approved by Ubuntu Technical Board on 2011-02-08.
+# See http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html for more information.
+{% for p in chrony_pool %}
+pool {{ p }} 
+{% endfor %}
+
+# This directive specify the location of the file containing ID/key pairs for
+# NTP authentication.
+keyfile /etc/chrony/chrony.keys
+
+# This directive specify the file into which chronyd will store the rate
+# information.
+driftfile /var/lib/chrony/chrony.drift
+
+# Uncomment the following line to turn logging on.
+#log tracking measurements statistics
+
+# Log files location.
+logdir /var/log/chrony
+
+# Stop bad estimates upsetting machine clock.
+maxupdateskew 100.0
+
+# This directive enables kernel synchronisation (every 11 minutes) of the
+# real-time clock. Note that it can’t be used along with the 'rtcfile' directive.
+rtcsync
+
+# Step the system clock instead of slewing it if the adjustment is larger than
+# one second, but only in the first three clock updates.
+makestep 1 3
diff --git a/roles/chrony/vars/RedHat.yaml b/roles/chrony/vars/RedHat.yaml
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+---
diff --git a/roles/chrony/vars/Ubuntu.yaml b/roles/chrony/vars/Ubuntu.yaml
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+---
+chrony_pool:
+  - ntp.ubuntu.com        iburst maxsources 4
+  - 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 1
+  - 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 1
+  - 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 2