Ansible Role: Java

This role installs Java on RedHat/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu Linux servers.

Requirements

No special requirements.

Role Variables

Here are the variables you can use, along with their default settings:

# The default Java package is different for each Linux distribution.
java_packages:
  - java-1.8.0-openjdk

You can specify the version of Java you want to install and any other required Java packages. More options are available in the distribution-specific files in this role's 'defaults' folder.

java_home: ""

If you set this variable, the role will create a global environment variable called JAVA_HOME with this value.

Dependencies

None required.

Example Playbook (default package)

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: geerlingguy.java
      become: yes

Example Playbook (installing OpenJDK 8)

For RHEL / CentOS:

- hosts: server
  roles:
    - role: geerlingguy.java
      when: "ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'"
      java_packages:
        - java-1.8.0-openjdk

For Ubuntu versions less than 16.04:

- hosts: server
  tasks:
    - name: Adding repository for Java 8 on Ubuntu
      apt_repository: repo='ppa:openjdk-r/ppa'

- hosts: server
  roles:
    - role: geerlingguy.java
      when: "ansible_os_family == 'Debian'"
      java_packages:
        - openjdk-8-jdk

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was first created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, the author of Ansible for DevOps.

It was updated by Joel Castillo for the NYC Department of Records and Information Services.