Ansible Role: Tomcat 8

An Ansible role that installs Tomcat 8 on:

• Centos/RHEL 7.x
• Ubuntu Xenial

Requirements

Ansible 2.4 or higher

On RedHat-based distributions, requires the EPEL repository (you can simply add the role geerlingguy.repo-epel to install ensure EPEL is available) or a valid RedHat Subscription.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values:

Tomcat packages to install

tomcat_packages:
  - tomcat

Tomcat admin packages to install

tomcat_admin_packages:
  - tomcat-admin

Directory to install Tomcat into

tomcat_home: /var/lib/tomcat

Whether to install the Tomcat administrative interface

tomcat_admin_install: yes

Tomcat roles

tomcat_roles: []

Tomcat users

tomcat_users: []

User and group to run Tomcat as

tomcat_server_user: tomcat
tomcat_server_group: tomcat

Some OS-specific variables are set in vars/* but can be overridden

tomcat_home: /opt/tomcat

Including these only used by 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 }}"

Set Tomcat Java Heap Size options for 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

Author Information

This role was originally created by Islandora Devops

Modified by Joel Castillo for the NYC Department of Records and Information Services.