tomcat-all cookbook

This cookbook will install tomcat using apache's binaries and extract it to the desired path.

Tested with test-kitchen + serverspec:

• CentOS 6.4 + Tomcat 7.0.53
• Ubuntu 12.04 + Tomcat 7.0.53

Requirements

Developed using Chef Development Kit 0.1.0 Chef-client 11.12.4 Vagrant 1.6.3

Usage

Simply include the tomcat-all recipe wherever you would like, such as a run list (recipe[tomcat-all]) or a cookbook (include_recipe 'tomcat-all'). By default, Oracle JDK 1.7 (JDK & JAVA_HOME) and Tomcat 7 will be installed.

This recipe will also create a custom server.xml, catalina.sh and init script configured with the bellow default settings if no other settings is provided.

Attributes

Default values provided as example only

• ['tomcat-all']['user'] = 'tomcat' - The user under tomcat will run

• ['tomcat-all']['group'] = 'tomcat' - The group under tomcat will run

• ['tomcat-all']['version'] = '7.0.53' - Tomcat's version to be installed

• ['tomcat-all']['install_directory'] = '/opt' - The root directory where tomcat will be installed. Bellow this directory this recipe will create a symlink tomcat and extract to a folder called 'tomcat-#{version}). Example: creates /opt/tomcat as a symbolic link to /opt/tomcat-7.0.53 (tomcat actual folder)

• ['tomcat-all']['shutdown_port'] = '8005' - Tomcat shutdown port (Set to '-1' to disable remote shutdown)

• ['tomcat-all']['port'] = '8080' - Port where tomcat will listen

• ['tomcat-all']['max_threads'] = '100' - Max threads on tomcat threadpool

• ['tomcat-all']['min_spare_threads'] = '10' - Min spare threads on tomcat threadpool

• ['tomcat-all']['java_opts'] = '-d64 -server -Djava.awt.headless=true' - JAVA_OPTS configuration

• ['tomcat-all']['catalina_opts'] = '' - CATALINA_OPTS configuration

• ["tomcat-all"]["ssl_enabled"] = false - Enable SSL Connector. Must also set ssl_port (see below)

• ["tomcat-all"]["ssl_port"] = '' - The port to listen on for SSL Connections

• ["tomcat-all"]["keystore_file"] = '' - Absolute path to the SSL Keystore file

• ["tomcat-all"]["keystore_pass"] = '' - SSL Keystore file password

• ["tomcat-all"]["keystore_type"] = '' - SSL Keystore file type (e.g. 'JKS')

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_enabled"] = true - Enable default LockoutRealm and configures a realm inside it (see below).

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_classname"] = 'org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm' - Realm inside of LockoutRealm className

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_resourcename"] = 'UserDatabase' - Realm inside of LockoutRealm resourceName (if it has one)

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_datasourcename"] = '' - Realm inside of LockoutRealm datasourceName (if it has one)

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_usertable"] = '' - Realm inside of LockoutRealm userTable (if it has one)

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_usernamecol"] = '' - Realm inside of LockoutRealm userNameCol (if it has one)

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_usercredcol"] = '' - Realm inside of LockoutRealm userCredCol (if it has one)

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_userroletable"] = '' - Realm inside of LockoutRealm userRoleTable (if it has one)

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_roleNameCol"] = '' - Realm inside of LockoutRealm roleNameCol (if it has one)

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_localdatasource"] = '' - Realm inside of LockoutRealm localDatasource (if it has one)

• ["tomcat-all"]["lockout_realm_digest"] = '' - Realm inside of LockoutRealm digest (if it has one)

• ["tomcat-all"]["SSO_enabled"] = false - Enable default SingleSignOn Valve

• ["tomcat-all"]["cluster_class"] = '' - Cluster class (must be set for Farm Deployment to work. See below)

• ["tomcat-all"]["farm_deploy_enabled"] = false - Enables Farm Deployment (must set properties below as well)

• ["tomcat-all"]["farm_deploy_classname"] = '' - Deployer className

• ["tomcat-all"]["farm_deploy_tempdir"] = '' - Deployer tempDir

• ["tomcat-all"]["farm_deploy_deploydir"] = '' - Deployer deployDir

• ["tomcat-all"]["farm_deploy_watchdir"] = '' - Deployer watchDir

• ["tomcat-all"]["farm_deploy_watchenabled"] = '' - Deployer watchEnabled

Example Config

	default_attributes(
	  "java" => {
	    "install_flavor" => "oracle",
	    "jdk_version" => 7,
	    "oracle" => {
	      "accept_oracle_download_terms" => true
	    }
	  },
	  "tomcat-all" => {
	    "user" => "tomcat",
	    "group" => "tomcat",
	    "version" => "7.0.53",
	    "install_directory" => "/opt",
	    "shutdown_port" => "-1",
	    "port" => "8080",
	    "max_threads" => "500",
	    "min_spare_threads" => "100",
	    "java_opts" => "-d64 -server -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms3072m -Xmx3072m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"
	  }
	)

Recipes

tomcat-all::default

Author

Author:: Roberto Moutinho (robertomoutinho@gmail.com)