While one might think that they can change the timezone of a machine with ansible with:
tasks:
- name: set /etc/localtime
timezone:
name: UTC
with some JDK apps it is not enought, because the JVM looks at /etc/timezone. So you need to update that file too. Maybe in a more cleaner way than:
- name: set /etc/timezone
shell: echo UTC > /etc/timezone
args:
creates: /etc/timezone
Managing organized complexity 