Ansible Role: osm_tomcat

An ansible role to install and configure Apache Tomcat.

Version History

Date	Version	Description	Changed By
June '15	v.1.0	Initial Draft	Sudipt Sharma

Supported OS

• CentOS : 6/7
• Redhat : 6/7
• Ubuntu :14/16
• Amazon Linux

Dependencies

Java must be pre installed and java version must be compatible for installing tomcat version

Tomcat Version	Java Version
7.0	6 or later
8.0	7 or later
8.5	7 or later

Role Variables

Variables	Default Values	Description
tomcat_version	8.5.40	Tomcat version to be installed
tomcat_user	tomcat	User name by which tomcat will run
tomcat_group	tomcat	Group name by which tomcat will be accessible
tomcat_service_name	tomcat	Service name of tomcat
tomcat_port_connector	8090	Port no. on which tomcat will be accessible
tomcat_jvm_memory_percentage_xms	15	Minimum memory to tomcat process
tomcat_jvm_memory_percentage_xmx	55	Max memory to tomcat process

Inventory

An inventory for tomcat installation should look like this:-

[tomcathosthost]                 
192.168.1.198    ansible_user=ubuntu   
192.168.3.201    ansible_user=opstree 

Example Playbook

• Here is an example playbook:-

- hosts: local

  roles:
    - role: osm_tomcat

ansible-playbook tomcat.yml

• ansible-playbook site.yml

After the successful installation of tomcat, browse through the tomcat url and you will get to see something like this

Future Proposed Changes

References

• software

Author Information

Name :- Rohit Bansal
Email :- rohit.bansal@opstree.com