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Salt Cookbook

You're reading from   Salt Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to efficiently configure and manage your infrastructure with Salt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399740
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anirban Saha Anirban Saha
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Salt Architecture and Components FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Advanced Salt Configurations 3. Modules, Orchestration, and Scaling Salt 4. General Administration Tasks 5. Advanced Administration Tasks 6. Managing Application Servers 7. Managing Databases 8. Configuring Salt Cloud 9. Managing Amazon Web Services 10. Salt Event and Reactor System 11. Troubleshooting Index

Setting up Java for Apache Tomcat


Apache Tomcat is undoubtedly the most widely used open source application server for Java-based applications, and it depends on Java to run successfully. In this recipe, we will learn how to set up Java for Tomcat.

How to do it...

  1. Configure a new minion called salt-minion in the development environment.

  2. Download the Java archive file from the following link; it should be something like jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz. The md5 hash for the file should also be available from the same location: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html

  3. Next we hosted the Java archive file on a local node, called repo, via a web server: the link for this should be something like http://repo/jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz.

  4. Create a new state directory called tomcat in the development environment.

  5. Create and edit /opt/salt-cookbook/development/tomcat/java.sls to have the following entries:

    java_package:
      archive:
        - extracted
        - name: /opt/
        - source...
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