Journalctl

This Ansible role manages the configuration of systemd-journald on target hosts.

Description

• Copies a customized journald.conf to /etc/systemd/journald.conf

• Ensures log retention for one week

• Restarts the systemd-journald service when configuration changes

• Supports live log streaming via journalctl -f

Overview

1. Template deployment
   The role places your journald.conf.j2 template into /etc/systemd/journald.conf.

2. Service handler
   On change, it notifies a handler to restart systemd-journald.

3. Monitoring
   You can follow logs in real time with journalctl -f.

Features

• Customizable retention and runtime limits

• Seamless restarts on config update

• Integration with sys-ctl-hlth-journalctl for downstream monitoring

Usage

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: sys-svc-journalctl