ActiveMQ Ansible Role

This role installs ActiveMQ.

Build Status:

Currently, it only supports Ansible lint. Support for distributions is in progress (work started in .travis.yml).

Requirements

Requires JAVA from Oracle.

Role Variables

Default installation mode for RHEL/Centos:

• amq_install_mode: tarball

User and group for ActiveMQ:

• amq_user: activemq
• amq_group: activemq
• amq_home_dir: /var/lib/activemq
• amq_log_dir: /var/log/activemq

Installation directory:

• amq_install_dir: /opt
• amq_run_dir: "/opt/{{ amq_user }}"

Default version:

• amq_version_major: "5"
• amq_version_minor: "13"
• amq_version_patch: "3"
• amq_version: "{{ amq_version_major }}.{{ amq_version_minor }}.{{ amq_version_patch }}"

Download URL - can be changed to your corporate URL prefix:

• amq_url_prefix: "http://archive.apache.org/dist/activemq/"
• amq_url: "{{ amq_url_prefix }}/{{ amq_version }}/apache-activemq-{{ amq_version }}-bin.tar.gz"

Environment variables: You can change or add new environment variables. These variables are loaded by the systemd service file.

amq_env_vars:
  ACTIVEMQ_USER: "{{ amq_user }}"
  ACTIVEMQ_BASE: "{{ amq_run_dir }}"

Dependencies

Requires Java to run. I personally do not trust dependencies listed in meta/main.yml, as they seem too mysterious...

Example Playbook

Here’s how to use your role (with variables passed in as parameters):

---
- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: root
  roles:
    - java
    - ansible-role-activemq

Changelog:

• Initial release - supports Ubuntu 14/16.04 and CentOS 6/7
• v1.0.0 - Added support for systemd in CentOS 7
• v1.0.1 - Added support for CentOS 6 (no systemd)

License

Apache 2.0

Author Information

Haggai Philip Zagury hagzag@tikalk.com. Part of the Shellg project. See also Shellg Docs