Ansible role for Jetty installation

Installs Jetty web-server from tarball.

It's inspired by puppet-jetty module and tries to do the same things but for Ansible.

Role Variables

jetty_version

Version of Jetty that will be installed. (Default is 9.2.3.v20140905.)
jetty_host

What host to listen on. By default it listens on all interfaces.
jetty_port

HTTP port to listen on. By default it listens on port 8080.
jetty_src_dir

Directory where tarball will be saved after downloading. (Default is /usr/src.)
jetty_dst_dir

Directory where Jetty distribution will be extracted. (Default is /opt.)
jetty_java_options

Extra options for Java.
jetty_user_create

Whether to create system account for Jetty or not. (Default is true.)
jetty_user_login

User name under which Jetty will run. (Default is jetty.)
jetty_user_homedir

Home directory of Jetty user. Used only when jetty_user_create is true. (Default is /opt/jetty.)
jetty_group_create

Whether to create group account for Jetty or not. (Default is true.)
jetty_group_name

Group name under which Jetty will be run. (Default is jetty.)

Actions role

downloads Jetty's distribution to jetty_src_dir
creates user/group if enabled
unpacks distribution to jetty_dst_dir and sets owner
creates symlink (jetty_dst_dir/jetty) to distribution directory
creates symlink (/var/log/jetty) to directory with log files
creates init script (/etc/init.d/jetty)
creates configuration file (/etc/default/jetty)
runs Jetty
adds Jetty to start on boot

How to install

ansible-galaxy install php-coder.jetty

For more installation's options/variants read the documentation: http://docs.ansible.com/galaxy.html

Dependencies

php-coder.oraclejdk

Example Playbook

Example of usage with default parameters:

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - php-coder.jetty

Example of usage with custom host/port and Java options:

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - {
         role: php-coder.jetty,
         jetty_host: '127.0.0.1',
         jetty_port: 9090,
         jetty_java_options: '-XX:+UseCompressedOops -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=86400000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=86400000'
       }

Example of usage with existing user and group:

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - {
         role: php-coder.jetty,
         jetty_user_create: false,
         jetty_user_login: 'www-data',
         jetty_group_create: false,
         jetty_group_name: 'www-data'
       }

License

GPLv2

Author Information

Slava Semushin (slava.semushin@gmail.com)

victorcwai/ansible-role-jetty