Ansible Role to Install Tomcat 9 on CentOS, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu Linux.
- CentOS 8
- CentOS 7
- Fedora 36
- Ubuntu 20.04 / Ubuntu 18.04
- Debian 11 / Debian 10
This role contains tasks to:
- Install basic packages required
- Install Java
- Add tomcat user and group
- Download tomcat and install - configure systemd
- Configure firewall
- Clone the Project:
$ git clone https://github.com/jmutai/tomcat-ansible.git
$ cd tomcat-ansible
- Update your inventory, e.g:
$ vim hosts
[tomcat_nodes]
192.168.10.10 # Remote user to act on
- Update variables in playbook file - Set Tomcat version, remote user and Tomcat UI access credentials
- Update ansible.cfg file if necessary
$ vim tomcat-setup.yml
- name: Tomcat deployment playbook
hosts: tomcat_nodes # Inventory hosts group / server to act on
become: yes # If to escalate privilege
become_method: sudo # Set become method
remote_user: root # Update username for remote server
vars:
tomcat_ver: 9.0.64 # Tomcat version to install
tomcat_v_num: 9 # Tomcat version number
ui_manager_user: manager # User who can access the UI manager section only
ui_manager_pass: Str0ngManagerP@ssw3rd # UI manager user password
ui_admin_username: admin # User who can access bpth manager and admin UI sections
ui_admin_pass: Str0ngAdminP@ssw3rd # UI admin password
roles:
- tomcat
If you are using non root remote user, then set username and enable sudo:
become: yes
become_method: sudo
Once all values are updated, you can then run the playbook against your nodes.
Playbook executed as root user - with ssh key:
$ ansible-playbook -i hosts tomcat-setup.yml
Playbook executed as root user - with password:
$ ansible-playbook -i hosts tomcat-setup.yml --ask-pass
Playbook executed as sudo user - with password:
$ ansible-playbook -i hosts tomcat-setup.yml --ask-pass --ask-become-pass
Playbook executed as sudo user - with ssh key and sudo password:
$ ansible-playbook -i hosts tomcat-setup.yml --ask-become-pass
Playbook executed as sudo user - with ssh key and passwordless sudo:
$ ansible-playbook -i hosts tomcat-setup.yml --ask-become-pass
Execution should be successful without errors: