Ansible Java Role

Manages installation of Java JREs and JDKs. It supports both OpenJDK and Oracle JRE and JDK 6, 7 and 8. All of them are installed using the package manager.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

The java_packages variable must be set to a list of the desired Java packages. For example:

java_packages:
  - openjdk-6-jdk
  - oracle-java7-installer

Debian / Ubuntu

Valid packages for Debian and Ubuntu are:

• openjdk-6-jre
• openjdk-6-jre-headless
• openjdk-6-jdk
• openjdk-7-jre
• openjdk-7-jre-headless
• openjdk-7-jdk
• oracle-java6-installer
• oracle-java7-installer
• oracle-java8-installer

32bit Java may be installed on x86 platforms appending :i386 to the package name.

You can ensure that Oracle JDK is set as the default JDK by adding oracle-java6-set-default, oracle-java7-set-default or oracle-java6-set-default to the java\_packages list.

Fedora

Valid packages for Fedora are:

• java-1.7.0-openjdk
• java-1.8.0-openjdk

Others

Got this role working with a different distro? Please, report it on GitHub or drop me a line at santi@mola.io.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: smola.java }

License

Copyright (c) Santiago M. Mola santi@mola.io

ansible-java-role is released under the terms of the MIT License.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy) from whom I have borrowed some ideas from his ansible-java-role and Testing Ansible Roles with Travis CI on GitHub.