tomcat Cookbook

Provides resources for installing Tomcat and managing the Tomcat service for use in wrapper cookbooks. Installs Tomcat from tarballs on the Apache.org website and installs the appropriate configuration for your platform's init system.

Requirements

Platforms

• Debian / Ubuntu derivatives
• RHEL and derivatives
• Fedora
• openSUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprises

Chef

• Chef 12.1+

Cookbooks

• compat_resource

Usage

Due to the complexity of Tomcat cookbooks it's not possible to create an attribute driven cookbook that solves everyone's problems. Instead this cookbook provides resources for installing Tomcat and managing the Tomcat service, which are best used in your own wrapper cookbook. The best way to understand how this could be used is to look at the helloworld test recipe located at test/cookbooks/test/recipes/helloworld_example.rb

Resources (providers)

tomcat_install

tomcat_install installs an instance of the tomcat binary direct from Apache's mirror site. As distro packages are not used we can easily deploy per-instance installations and any version available on the Apache archive site can be installed.

properties

• version: The version to install. Default: 8.0.36
• install_path: Full path to the install directory. Default: /opt/tomcat_INSTANCENAME_VERSION
• tarball_base_path: The base path to the apache mirror containing the tarballs. Default: 'http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/'
• checksum_base_path: The base path to the apache mirror containing the md5 file. Default: 'http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/'
• tarball_uri: The complete path to the tarball. If specified would override (tarball_base_path and checksum_base_path). checksum will be loaded from "#{tarball_uri}.md5". This attribute is useful, if you are hosting tomcat tarballs from artifact repositories such as nexus.
• exclude_docs: Exclude ./webapps/docs from installation. Default true.
• exclude_examples: Exclude ./webapps/examples from installation. Default true.
• exclude_manager: Exclude ./webapps/manager from installation. Default: false.
• exclude_hostmanager: Exclude ./webapps/host-manager from installation. Default: false.

example

Install an Tomcat 8.0.36 instance named 'helloworld' to /opt/tomcat_helloworld_8_0_32/ with a symlink at /opt/tomcat_helloworld/

tomcat_install 'helloworld' do
  version '8.0.36'
end

tomcat_service

tomcat_service sets up the installed tomcat instance to run using the appropriate init system (sys-v, upstart, or systemd)

properties

• install_path: Full path to the install directory. Default: /opt/tomcat_INSTANCENAME
• env_vars: An array of hashes containing the environmental variables for Tomcat's setenv.sh script. Note: If CATALINA_BASE is not passed it will automatically be added as the first item in the array. Default: [ {'CATALINA_BASE' => '/opt/INSTANCE_NAME/'}, {'CATALINA_PID' => '$CATALINA_BASE/bin/tomcat.pid'} ]

actions

• start
• stop
• enable
• disable
• restart

example

tomcat_service 'helloworld' do
  action :start
  env_vars [{ 'CATALINA_PID' => '/my/special/path/tomcat.pid' }]
end

License & Authors

• Author: Tim Smith (tsmith@chef.io)

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