Tomcat Puppet Module

This is an extremely simplistic Puppet module which installs Tomcat. It's only been testing on Ubuntu (and will only work on Ubuntu/Debian thus far).

All It Does

• Installs 'tomcat' package (Tomcat 7 by default)
• Installs 'tomcat-user' package (which is only on Ubuntu/Debian)
  • Note: the 'tomcat-user' package provides the following:
    • Tomcat 'skeleton' configs (/user/share/tomcat7/skel/) - Used by 'tomcat7-instance-create'
    • 'tomcat7-instance-create' script - which is used to install Tomcat to a specific directory (and allows for easy setup of multiple Tomcat instances per server)
• Provides a "tomcat::instance" script which lets you install one (or more) Tomcat instances on your server.

How To Use It

1. Install this module (via something like librarian-puppet).

2. Call it from a Puppet script

    # Install Tomcat package
    include tomcat
    # Create a new Tomcat instance at ~ubuntu/tomcat
    tomcat::instance { 'mytomcat':
      owner         => "ubuntu",
      port          => "8080",
      shutdown_port => "8005",
      appBase       => "webapps",  # Tell Tomcat to load webapps from this directory 
    }
   

   • Other options are available. See the included "instance.pp" script.