tdonohue/puppet-tomcat

Puppet Module which installs Tomcat with very basic settings (Only tested on Ubuntu)

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.