Ansible Role: Apache Tomcat

Sets up Apache Tomcat from binary tgz.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

See defaults/main.yml:

tomcat_force_install: false

Force installation even if target folder already exists

tomcat_user: tomcat
tomcat_group: tomcat

User to deploy and run under

tomcat_drivers: 
  - https://example.com/somedriver-v1.0.jar

Download drivers to lib/

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

---
- hosts: all
  hosts: all
  become: yes

  roles:
    - role: filviu.tomcat
      tomcat_version: 9.0.27
      tomcat_install_path: /opt
      tomcat_user: tomcat
      tomcat_group: tomcat
      tomcat_drivers:
        - https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-9.4-1206-jdbc4.jar
# tomcat_users you might be using in the tomcat-users.xml.j2 template
      tomcat_users:
        someuser:
          password: "some_encrypted_password"
          roles: "ROLE1, ROLE2"
      tomcat_server_xml_template: tomcat/server.xml.j2
      tomcat_users_xml_template: tomcat/tomcat-users.xml.j2
      #tomcat_setenv_sh_template: tomcat/setenv.sh.j2

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created by Silviu Vulcan to scratch his own itch.