Ansible role for Jetty installation

Installs Jetty web-server from tarball.

It's inspired by php-coder.jetty role, and adds the following changes:

• Changed default Jetty version to a newer one

Role Variables

• jetty_version

  Version of Jetty that will be installed. (Default is 9.3.8.v20160314.)

• 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 geoffroya.jetty

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

Dependencies

• williamyeh.oracle-java

Example Playbook

Example of usage with default parameters:

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - geoffroya.jetty

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

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

License

GPLv2

Author Information

99,99% of the work done by Slava Semushin ([email protected]) 0.01% done by me Geoffroy Arnoud