Ansible Role: MAVEN

Description

Install and configures Apache Maven on RedHat/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

• Ansible >=2.4
• EPEL Repo for RedHat/Centos, which can be installed automatically using the common ansible role.
• Java which can be installed using the skydevops-java

Role Variables

All the variable that can be overridden are stored in vars/main.yml or defaults/main.yml file as shown in the table below:

Name	Default Value	Description
main_rel	: 3	Major version of Maven
min_rel	: 5	Minor version of Maven
patch_rel	: 3	Patch version of Maven
maven_version.	: {{main_rel}}.{{min_rel}}.{{patch_rel}}	Maven Version that will be installed
maven_install_dir	: /apps	Install directory for maven
maven_src_tar	: apache-maven-{{maven_version}}-bin.zip	Apache Maven Archive
maven_home	: apache-maven-{{maven_version}}	M2_HOME ENV variable
maven_shared_home	: /usr/shared/maven	Symlink to the installed Maven
maven_repo_dir	: /data/maven/repo	Maven repo directory
maven_profile_sh	: /etc/profile.d/maven.sh	Jinja2 Template, contains the info to source the ENV variables

Dependencies

• Ansible common Role, to install required directory structure and packages.
• Ansible java Role, which installs and configures java from Oracle.

Example Playbook and defaults

Playbook Default file locations based on playbook execution

# The defaults PATHS where Ansible looks for the files
When executing the playbook from the following path:
$ cd /home/${USER}/
$ ansible-playbook ${playbook_dir}/playbook.yml

   /home/${USER}/roles/${ansible_role}/files/apache-maven-3.5.3-bin.zip   
   /home/${USER}/roles/${ansible_role}/apache-maven-3.5.3-bin.zip   
   /home/${USER}/roles/${ansible_role}/tasks/files/apache-maven-3.5.3-bin.zip   
   /home/${USER}/roles/${ansible_role}/tasks/apache-maven-3.5.3-bin.zip   
   /home/${USER}/${playbook_dir}/files/apache-maven-3.5.3-bin.zip   
   /home/${USER}/${playbook_dir}/apache-maven-3.5.3-bin.zip

Use the following to run playbook

- hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes
  roles:
    - role: 5KYDEV0P5.common

- hosts: testservers
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes
  roles:
    - role: 5KYDEV0P5.skydevops-java
    - role: 5KYDEV0P5.skydevops-maven

License

• Licensed under the Apache License V2.0.
• See the LICENSE file for details.

Author Information

• You can find me on Twitter: @skydevops
• You can find me on Facebook: @skydevops

Contributors

• Shashi Yebbare (@skydevops)