Ansible role tomcat

An Ansible role for setting up and hardening Tomcat on RHEL/CentOS 7 or Fedora. Specifically, the responsibilities of this role are to:

• Install packages from the EPEL repository (EL7: Tomcat 7, Fedora 23: Tomcat 8)
• Manage configuration
• Harden Tomcat install

The firewall configuration is not a concern of this role. Use another role for that (e.g. bertvv.rh-base)

Versioning and State of Development

This project uses the Semantic Versioning Policy.

Branches

The master branch contains the latest version of the software leading up to a new release.

Other branches contain feature-specific updates.

Tags

Tags indicate official releases of the project.

Please note 0.x releases are works in progress (WIP) and may change at any time.

How to run

1. bundle install
2. Set your kitchen environment variable to .kitchen.docker.yml or .kitchen.vagrant.yml based on preference

• Example: export KITCHEN_YAML=.kitchen.vagrant.yml

3. Run kitchen converge tomcat
4. Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:4568
5. Cleanup after with kitchen destroy tomcat

Requirements

No specific requirements

Role Variables

Variable	Required	Default	Comments
tomcat_port	no	8080	The port number for the Tomcat service (> 1024)
tomcat_libraries	no	[]	List of libraries (.jar files) to install in Tomcat lib/ directory
tomcat_deploy_wars	no	[]	List of application archives (.war files) to be deployed
tomcat_install_admin_webapp	no	false	When true, the admin web application is installed
tomcat_roles	no	(see below)	List of user roles to be defined in tomcat-users.xml (see below)
tomcat_users	no	[]	List of users to be defined in tomcat-users.xml (see below)

Users and roles

When installing the Manager web application, you also need to define at least one user and some roles. See the Tomcat Documentation for details. The following roles are available by default:

tomcat_roles:
  - manager-gui
  - manager-status
  - manager-script
  - manager-jmx

You can override these by redefining tomcat_roles in your host_vars or group_vars.

To enable access to the Manager web application, you must create a username/password and associate one of the manager-xxx roles with it. The tomcat_users variable takes care of this, e.g.:

tomcat_users:
  - name: admin
    password: 'Boavtug8'
    roles:
      - manager-gui
  - name: john
    password: 'yirphUr7'
    roles:
      - manager-jmx

Dependencies

No dependencies.

Example Playbook

See test playbook in /tests/test.yml

Contributing

Issues, feature requests, ideas are appreciated and can be posted in the Issues section. Pull requests are also very welcome. Preferably, create a topic branch and when submitting, squash your commits into one (with a descriptive message).

Contributors

• Bert Van Vreckem (Initial role)
• duality72

NOTICE

© 2018 The MITRE Corporation.

Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited. Case Number 18-3678.

NOTICE

MITRE hereby grants express written permission to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, and otherwise leverage this software to the extent permitted by the licensed terms provided in the LICENSE.md file included with this project.

NOTICE

This software was produced for the U. S. Government under Contract Number HHSM-500-2012-00008I, and is subject to Federal Acquisition Regulation Clause 52.227-14, Rights in Data-General.

No other use other than that granted to the U. S. Government, or to those acting on behalf of the U. S. Government under that Clause is authorized without the express written permission of The MITRE Corporation.

For further information, please contact The MITRE Corporation, Contracts Management Office, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102-7539, (703) 983-6000.