cetic / ansible-role-tomcat8.5

Ansible Role - Tomcat v8.5

Ansible Role: Tomcat v8.5

Installs Tomcat v8.5 on RHEL/CentOS 7 with ansible.

The goal here is to provide a standalone tomcat role that can be added into your playbooks.

The ansible role allows you to install, for the moment, the version 8.5 of Tomcat.

Requirements

You can use this ansible role to set up java:

• https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-java

Role Variables for Tomcat 8.5

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

tomcat

tomcat_version: '8.5.31'
tomcat_port: '8080'
tomcat_port_ajp: '8009'
tomcat_port_https: '8443'
tomcat_port_shutdown: '8005'
tomcat_group: 'tomcat'
tomcat_user: 'tomcat'
tomcat_user_home: '/opt/tomcat'

You can set variables related to tomcat here.

geerlingguy java

java_home: '/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0-openjdk'

Dependencies

• geerlingguy.java

Example Playbook

- hosts: tomcat
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: geerlingguy.java
    - role: cetic.tomcat

Tests

testing locally with Vagrant

You can test this ansible role by using vagrant. See the Vagrantfile.

testing with Travis

See the playbook used for Travis CI tests (tests/test.yml).

Future improvements

• Provide more recent/different versions of Tomcat
• More OS support

Feel free to contribute.

License

MIT License https://github.com/cetic/ansible-role-tomcat8.5/blob/master/LICENSE