Ansible Role: Apache Karaf

This Ansible role installs Karaf in a Tomcat 8 servlet container. It works on:

• Centos/RHEL 7.x
• Ubuntu Xenial

Role Variables

Here are the available variables you can customize, along with their default values:

• Version to install:

  karaf_version: 4.0.8
  

• Directory to download Karaf:

  karaf_staging_folder: /usr/local/src
  

• Directory to install Karaf:

  karaf_install_folder: /opt
  

• Symlink location for Karaf:

  karaf_install_symlink: /opt/karaf
  

• User to run Karaf:

  karaf_user: karaf
  

• Create the user or not:

  karaf_create_user: yes
  

• Name of the Karaf service:

  karaf_service_name: karaf
  

• Karaf log levels:

  karaf_log_root_level: INFO
  karaf_log_camel_level: DEBUG
  karaf_log_islandora_level: DEBUG
  

• Directory for log files:

  karaf_log_path: ${karaf.data}/log/
  

• Logging configuration template:

  karaf_logging_template: org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg
  

• Java home directory:

  karaf_java_home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
  

• Java packages needed for installation:

  karaf_java_packages:
    - openjdk-8-jre
    - openjdk-8-jdk
  

• Karaf service file template:

  karaf_systemd_template: karaf.service
  

Dependencies

• Java 8

Example Playbook

This is a sample playbook to use the role:

- hosts: webservers
  roles:
    - { role: islandora.karaf }

License

MIT