Ansible Role pulse-mind.tomcat

Install Tomcat 8 or 9 on Ubuntu >= 16.04, Debian, CentOS, from archive with systemd

Requirements

This role depends on existing Java installation. The java installation is not part of this role. You must define the JAVA_HOME in the tomcat_java_home variable.

Role Variables

tomcat_java_home The path to your java installation. This variable is required in the systemd service file.

# Directory to store files downloaded for Java installation on the remote box
tomcat_download_dir: "{{ x_ansible_download_dir | default(ansible_env.HOME + '/.ansible/tmp/downloads') }}"

# Location Tomcat installations packages can be found on the local box
# local packages will be uses in preference to downloading new packages.
tomcat_local_archive_dir: '{{ playbook_dir }}/files'

# Wether to use installation packages in the local archive (if available)
# default is false
tomcat_use_local_archive: true

# File name for the Tomcat redistributable installation file
tomcat_redis_filename: apache-tomcat-9.0.34.tar.gz

To use local files, add the tomcat tgz into ./files/ And add these variables

tomcat_archive_name: "apache-tomcat-9.0.34"
tomcat_use_local_archive: true
tomcat_redis_filename: apache-tomcat-9.0.34.tar.gz

Dependencies

A running Java installation like open-jdk-8.

Installation of the Role

ansible-galaxy install pulse-mind.ansible-role-tomcat

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: pulse-mind.ansible-role-tomcat, tomcat_java_home: /path/to/java/jre }

For assistance on getting location of java_home from your server check stackoverflow answer here

Tomcat service is stored into /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service

Test

This roles uses Molecule to test. You can run the tests like this:

molecule test

License

MIT / BSD