EL 7 support about ansible-tomcat

Hi,

systemd support right now is bad. This one tries to install a SysV script which is bad on EL7. Running tomcat with systemd requires jsvc, ... A lot of stuff which is currently not implemented, but we are working on it. Stay tuned.

[kakawait]

I have started EL7 support on my side. But first time playing with Ansible, if you have time to check modification I have committed on https://github.com/kakawait/ansible-tomcat/tree/el7-support (https://github.com/kakawait/ansible-tomcat/commit/1fd785abaed9e77107940143472d2a23179526cb).

If it is not so bad I can create a PR.

I'd greatly appreciate PR on systemd support, especially for jsvc with ansible_os_family == RedHat.

[kakawait]

Ok I will run integration tests before PR (just tested manually atm)... Coming soon :)

[kakawait]

Any reason to use JSVC over systemd directly to manage tomcat lifecycle?

Not an expert on that matter. From my understanding it's best to hand control over the processes to systemd completely, which is fine with jsvc. Wrapper like tanuki which in turn is managed with a shell script is not an option for systemd as systemd does not support running services without binaries. So either way it would be required to "wrap" tanuki binary or use jsvc.
Archlinux community suggests jsvc for java applications with systemd. Mostly these guys know what they are talking about. Long story short: I need to dive deeper into this.
Priority for now is

• several fixes with local download and upload of redistributables
• support for tomcat 8
• fix systemd support.

[kakawait]

Ok no probs. I'm neither ops or devops, I'm just a developer so I used to take the shortest way (avoiding security or other aspect hihi).

Actually my fork works goods with jsvc on Centos7 but I will take much time to improve logging:

• Jsvc is dumping tomcat log in -errfile instead of -outfile even there is no error (o.O).
• I didn't find a way to create a catalina.out per CATALINA_BASE with correct owner (tomcat user)

Thanks for all the hints. I'll take all of them into account when I start on systemd/jsvc/wrapper stuff. I'll keep you updated.

[kakawait]

Some information about systemd vs jsvc (in case): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28894008/what-benefit-do-i-get-from-jsvc-over-just-using-systemd

Otherwise thanks for quick support (and your ansible playbooks are really great, I have to change my old java playbook to yours ^^)

Todos marked earlier are all implemented now. I'll have to wait for internal PR before releasing to general public. Stay tuned.

Hi, have a look at feature/fix-systemd-instance-management branch. This will be the next release with fixes for all issues

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[kakawait]

Nice I will check that at the end of week.

Implemented/fixed with current release.