appserver.yml

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes 
  tasks:
    - name: install java 
      apt:
        name: openjdk-8-jdk
        update_cache: yes
        state: present 
    - name: Ensure group "tomcat" exists
      group:
        name: tomcat 
        state: present 
    - name: Add the user 'tomcat' with a specific uid and a primary group of 'tomcat'
      user:
        name: tomcat 
        comment: tomcat done
        group: tomcat
    - name: Download apache-tomcat-8.5.40.tar.gz
      get_url:
        url: https://www-eu.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.39/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.40.tar.gz
        dest: /tmp/  
    - name: create a directory tomcat if not exists
      file:
        path: /opt/tomcat
        state: directory
        mode: 0755
    - name: Extract archive
      unarchive:
        src: /tmp/apache-tomcat-8.5.40.tar.gz
        dest: /opt/tomcat                             
        extra_opts: [--strip-components=1]
        remote_src: yes
    - name: change th directory to /opt/tomcat
      shell: cd /opt/tomcat
    - name: Change ownership of Tomcat installation
      file: 
        path: /opt/tomcat
        owner: tomcat 
        group: tomcat 
        state: directory
        mode: 0755
        recurse: yes
    - name: Configure Tomcat server
      template: 
        src: tomcat-server.xml.j2 
        dest: /etc/systemd/system/
      notify: 
      - restart tomcat
    - name: remove tomcat-users.xml
      file: 
        path: /opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat-user.xml
        state: absent      
    - name: configure tomcat-user.xml
      copy:
        src: copy/tomcat-users.xml
        dest: /opt/tomcat/conf/
      notify:
      - restart tomcat 
  handlers:
    - name: tomcat-8-restart
      service: 
        name: restart tomcat 
        state: restarted