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Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

By : Stephane Jourdan, Pierre Pomès
Book Image

Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

By: Stephane Jourdan, Pierre Pomès

Overview of this book

Para 1: Infrastructure as code is transforming the way we solve infrastructural challenges. This book will show you how to make managing servers in the cloud faster, easier and more effective than ever before. With over 90 practical recipes for success, make the very most out of IAC.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Configuring the server's time zone using cloud-init


One very common configuration step on a new instance is setting the time zone. This time we'll explicitly set the EDT (New York) time zone for our server (even if the server is running in Europe or somewhere else). It is sometimes important to have as early as possible a correct date and time set up (for things like registration times, delays, and other issues depending on dates and times).

Note

In most setups, I personally prefer to ensure all the systems are set to GMT, wherever they are on the planet, GMT or not. This way, it's much easier to debug, compare logs or behavior when failures arise, without losing time doing the math of the time zones.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need:

  • Access to a cloud-config enabled infrastructure

How to do it…

To set the server's time zone automatically to America/New_York, use the timezone directive:

#cloud-config
timezone: "America/New_York"

That is it! Our server is now configured from...