Ansible Contd
Activity 5: Install tomcat 10 server
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Target environments:
- ubuntu
- redhat
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References
- ubuntu Refer Here
- redhat based Refer Here
- Ubuntu Manual Steps:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk -y
sudo useradd -m -U -d /opt/tomcat -s /bin/false tomcat
# create user with following information
# username = tomcat
# group = tomcat
# homedir = /opt/tomcat
# shell = /bin/false
MAJOR_VERSION="10"
VERSION="10.1.14"
wget "https://dlcdn.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-${MAJOR_VERSION}/v${VERSION}/bin/apache-tomcat-${VERSION}.tar.gz" -P /tmp
# download tomcat tar to /tmp
# file path: /tmp/apache-tomcat-10.1.14.tar.gz
sudo tar -xf /tmp/apache-tomcat-${VERSION}.tar.gz -C /opt/tomcat/
# extract tar file to /opt/tomcat
sudo ln -s /opt/tomcat/apache-tomcat-${VERSION} /opt/tomcat/latest
# Create a link for /opt/tomcat/apache-tomcat-10.1.14 to /opt/tomcat/latest
sudo chown -R tomcat: /opt/tomcat
# transfer of ownership to tomcat user
sudo sh -c 'chmod +x /opt/tomcat/latest/bin/*.sh'
# Add execute permissions to all scripts in bin directory
- Creating service files will be done at a later point of time
Ansible implementations
- Refer Here for the changes done to install java and create group and user
- We ran into issue with quotes Refer Here for the fix
- After checking syntax and dry run, execute the ansible playbook
- Refer Here for the changes to download the tomcat
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Exercise:
- Fail this playbook if it is executed on any os other than ubuntu
- Add a debug statement showing inforamation
Installed jdk 11 using package openjdk-11-jdk
create a user tomcat
create a group tomcat
download the tomcat 10.1.14 to /tmp folder
