Ansible role: "Red Hat JBoss common"

Description

Installs the prerequisites for the Red Hat JBoss middleware products specific roles like:

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
• Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS) - Apache HTTPD
• Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS) - Apache Tomcat

This role sets the timezone, some shell aliases and installs the following packages:

• unzip
• java
• rsync
• net-tools (for netstat)
• psmisc (for pstree)
• vim (for vimdiff)

Please have a look at this example showing how to easily operate Red Hat JBoss middleware products using this role.

Requirements

This role has been tested on Ansible 2.0.2.0 and 2.1.1.0. It requires Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Dependencies

None.

Installation

ansible-galaxy install Maarc.rh-jboss-common

Role Variables

Name	Default Value	Description
java_pkg_name	java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel	Used Java 8 JDK. See recommendation.
timezone	Europe/Berlin	Timezone for the hosts and the logs.
download_dir	/tmp	Directory containing all downloaded middleware on the managed remote host.

License

Apache 2.0

Author Information

• Marc Zottner
• Roeland van de Pol