Ansible Role: Tomcat 8

This is an Ansible role for installing Tomcat 8 on:

• Centos/RHEL 7.x
• Ubuntu Xenial

Requirements

You need Ansible version 2.4 or higher.

For RedHat-based systems, you must have the EPEL repository enabled (you can use the role geerlingguy.repo-epel to add it) or have a valid RedHat subscription.

Role Variables

Here are the available settings, with their default values:

Packages to install for Tomcat

tomcat_packages:
  - tomcat

Packages for Tomcat admin

tomcat_admin_packages:
  - tomcat-admin

Directory where Tomcat will be installed

tomcat_home: /var/lib/tomcat

Should the Tomcat admin interface be installed?

tomcat_admin_install: yes

Tomcat roles

tomcat_roles: []

Tomcat users

tomcat_users: []

User and group that will run Tomcat

tomcat_server_user: tomcat
tomcat_server_group: tomcat

Some variables are specific to the operating system and can be changed

tomcat_home: /opt/tomcat

Specifically for CentOS/RH:

tomcat_version: 8.5.27
tomcat_binary_url:  "http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/v{{ tomcat_version }}/bin/apache-tomcat-{{ tomcat_version }}.tar.gz"
tomcat_target_dir:  "/opt/apache-tomcat-{{ tomcat_version }}"

Setting the Java Heap Size for the Tomcat Service

tomcat_heap_min: "128m"
tomcat_heap_max: "128m"
tomcat_max_perm_size: "512m"

Dependencies

• nycrecords.java

Example Playbook

- hosts: webservers
  roles:
    - { role: nycrecords.tomcat }

License

MIT License

Author Information

This role was initially created by Islandora Devops and modified by Joel Castillo for the NYC Department of Records and Information Services.