Ansible Role: Tomcat 8

An Ansible role that installs Tomcat 8 on:

• Centos/RHEL 7.x
• Ubuntu Xenial

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values:

Tomcat packages to install

tomcat8_packages:
  - tomcat8

Tomcat admin packages to install

tomcat8_admin_packages:
  - tomcat8-admin

Directory to install Tomcat into

tomcat8_home: /var/lib/tomcat8

Whether to install the Tomcat administrative interface

tomcat8_admin_install: yes

Tomcat roles

tomcat8_roles: []

Tomcat users

tomcat8_users: []

User and group to run Tomcat as

tomcat8_server_user: tomcat8
tomcat8_server_group: tomcat8

Some OS-specific variables are set in vars/* but can be overridden

tomcat8_home: /opt/tomcat

Including these only used by CentOS/RH

tomcat8_version: 8.5.27
tomcat_binary_url:  "http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/v{{ tomcat8_version }}/bin/apache-tomcat-{{ tomcat8_version }}.tar.gz"
tomcat_target_dir:  "/opt/apache-tomcat-{{ tomcat8_version }}"

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: webservers
  roles:
    - { role: islandora.tomcat8 }

License

MIT