When attempting to do an overcloud deploy specifying an ntp server e.g.


openstack overcloud deploy --control-scale 1 --compute-scale 1 --ceph-storage-scale 0 --block-storage-scale 0 --swift-storage-scale 0 --neutron-public-interface eth1 --nodes-json instackenv.json --overcloud_nameserver 192.168.1.1 --floating-ip-cidr 192.168.1.0/24 --floating-ip-start 192.168.1.230 --floating-ip-end 192.168.1.240 --bm-network-gateway 192.168.1.1 --use-tripleo-heat-templates --tripleo-root /home/stack/openstack-deployment/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates --ntp-server 0.au.pool.ntp.org

It fails with the following error

    "deploy_stderr": "\u001b[1;31mWarning: The package type's allow_virtual parameter will be changing its default value from false to true in a future release. If you do not want to allow virtual packages, please explicitly set allow_virtual to false.\n   (at /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/type.rb:816:in `set_default')\u001b[0m\n\u001b[1;31mError: Could not start Service[ntp]: Execution of '/usr/bin/systemctl start ntpd' returned 6: Failed to issue method call: Unit ntpd.service failed to load: No such file or directory.\nWrapped exception:\nExecution of '/usr/bin/systemctl start ntpd' returned 6: Failed to issue method call: Unit ntpd.service failed to load: No such file or directory.\u001b[0m\n\u001b[1;31mError: /Stage[main]/Ntp::Service/Service[ntp]/ensure: change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[ntp]: Execution of '/usr/bin/systemctl start ntpd' returned 6: Failed to issue method call: Unit ntpd.service failed to load: No such file or directory.\u001b[0m\n\u001b[1;31mWarning: /Stage[main]/Ntp/Anchor[ntp::end]: Skipping because of failed dependencies\u001b[0m\n", 
    "deploy_status_code": 6
  }

Hard to read but the important part is

Failed to issue method call: Unit ntpd.service failed to load: No such file or directory

can we please make sure ntpd is installed and configured on the overcloud images? Likewise, maybe we should be looking at using systemds timedatectl and chrony instead?

Cheers,

Graeme