Puppet Glassfish module

Original puppet-glassfish author - Lars Tobias Skjong-Børsting larstobi@conduct.no
Copyright - Gavin Williams fatmcgav@gmail.com

License: GPLv3

Table of Contents

• Puppet Glassfish module
  • Overview
  • Features
  • Requirements
  • Usage
  • Limitations
  • Contributors
  • Development
  • Testing

Overview

This module adds support for installing and managing the Glassfish J2EE application server. It supports Glassfish J2EE version 3.1 and 4.0, running on EL and Debian linux distributions.

Features

This module can do the following:

• Install Glassfish J2EE Application server, either by downloading a Zip file or installing from a package.
• Install and configure Java if appropriate.
• Manage user accounts if appropriate.
• Configure PATH to support Glassfish.
• Create Linux service to run Glassfish on system startup.
• Create asadmin password files for different users or locations.
• Install additional JARs if appropriate.
• Create and manage Glassfish clusters, including:
  • Domain Administration Service (DAS)
  • Nodes
  • Instances
• Manage various configuration elements of Glassfish, including:
  • Applications
  • Auth Realm
  • Custom Resources
  • Log Attribute properties
  • Javamail Resources
  • JDBC Connection Pools
  • JDBC Resources
  • JMS Resources
  • JVM Options
  • Network Listeners
  • Resource references
  • Set options
  • System properties

Further features that are likely to be added include:

• Additional support for Cluster environments, such as targeting resources at cluster.

Requirements

This module requires the Puppetlabs-Stdlib module >= 3.2.0.

Usage

Glassfish can be installed and configured with a default configuration with:

include glassfish

This will install Java 7 OpenJDK, create a Glassfish group and user account, download and install Glassfish J2EE v3.1.2.2 using a Zip file. No domains are created by default.

To install Glassfish using a package manager, such as yum or apt, you could do:

class { 'glassfish':
  install_method => 'package', 
  package_prefix => 'glassfish'
}

_packageprefix can be used to change the package naming structure. The required version is appended to the end to form the package name, e.g.: glassfish3-3.1.2.2

To create and configure a domain upon installation, you could do:

class { 'glassfish': 
  create_domain => true, 
  domain_name   => 'gf_domain', 
  portbase      => '8000'
}

This will install Glassfish and create a domain called 'gf_domain' using portbase 8000, with a default username/password of 'admin/adminadmin'.

If you are using other means to manage user accounts on this host, then you can stop this module managing user accounts by doing:

class { 'glassfish':
  manage_accounts => false 
}

This module also provides several defined types which can be used to simplify other tasks, such as creating a domain using glassfish::create_domain to create a new domain, or glassfish::create_cluster to create a new cluster.

It is also possible to use the types directly.
E.g.

  jdbcconnectionpool { 'ConPool':
    ensure       => present,
    resourcetype => 'javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource',
    dsclassname  => 'oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleConnectionPoolDataSource',
    properties   => {
      'user'     => 'con_user', 
      'password' => 'con_password',
      'url'      => 'jdbc\:oracle\:thin\:@localhost\:1521\:XE'
    },
    portbase     => '8000',
    asadminuser  => 'admin',
    user         => 'glassfish'
  }

  jdbcresource { 'jdbc/ConPool':
    ensure         => present,
    connectionpool => 'ConPool',
    portbase       => '8000',
    target         => 'aCluster',
    asadminuser    => 'admin',
    user           => 'glassfish'
  }

Limitations

This module has primarily been developed and tested on CentOS 6. It has also been lightly tested on Debian and Ubuntu, so should support most common Linux distributions.

Contributors

Thanks to the following people who have helped with this module:

• Stepan Stipl - Features and testing
• Jon Black - Testing
• Alex Jennings - Features
• joliveira - Bug fixes
• Jesse Cotton - Features
• Bjoern Lippert - Bug fixes
• Doug Neal - Features
• Svante Paldan - Features and bug fixes

Development

If you have any features that you feel are missing or find any bugs for this module, feel free to raise an issue on Github, or even better submit a PR and I will review as soon as I can.

Testing

This module has been written to support Rspec testing of both the manifests and types/providers. In order to execute the tests, run the following from the root of the module: bundle install && bundle exec rake spec