Ansible Role: aisbergg.localization

This Ansible role takes care of the localization settings on Linux systems. It includes options to set the locales, keymap and timzone.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Variable	Default	Comments
localization_language_packs	[]	List of language packs to be installed. Some systems provide dedicated packages for each language. You have to install those packages in order to get the locales working. In Ubuntu systems the packages are named language-pack-* and in CentOS 8 glibc-langpack-*.
localization_locales_present	[]	List of locales to be present.
localization_locales_absent	[]	List of locales to be absent.
localization_locales_default	{"LANG": "en_US.UTF-8", "LC_ALL": "en_US.UTF-8"}	Mapping of default locales variables.
localization_locales_default.LANG		LANG variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LANGUAGE		LANGUAGE variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_ADDRESS		LC_ADDRESS variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_COLLATE		LC_COLLATE variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_CTYPE		LC_CTYPE variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_IDENTIFICATION		LC_IDENTIFICATION variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_MONETARY		LC_MONETARY variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_MESSAGES		LC_MESSAGES variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_MEASUREMENT		LC_MEASUREMENT variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_NAME		LC_NAME variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_NUMERIC		LC_NUMERIC variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_PAPER		LC_PAPER variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_TELEPHONE		LC_TELEPHONE variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_TIME		LC_TIME variable. See man pages for information.
localization_locales_default.LC_ALL		LC_ALL variable. See man pages for information.
localization_keymap	en	The keymap to be set.
localization_keymap_toggle		The alternative keymap to be set.
localization_timezone		The timezone to be set. If left empty, the timezone stays untouched.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  vars:
    localization_locales_present:
      - de_DE.UTF-8
      - en_US.UTF-8
    localization_locales_absent:
      - fr_FR.UTF-8
    localization_locales_default:
      LANGUAGE: de_DE
      LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
      LC_ALL: de_DE.UTF-8
    localization_keymap: de
    localization_keymap_toggle: de-latin1
    localization_timezone: Europe/Berlin
  roles:
    - aisbergg.localization

License

MIT

Author Information

Andre Lehmann ([email protected])