Deploying with Ansible Tower( Playbook to deploy artifact to tomcat)

The below playbook will log into tomcat server Create a folder called Downloads. Download artifact into it and copy them into the /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps  

Playbook 4

---

- name: Playbook to Download and Deploy Artifact in tomcat

  hosts: "{{ deploy_host }}"    

  tasks:

  - name: Create a Directory /opt/Downloads

    become: yes

    file:

      path: /opt/Downloads

      state: directory

      mode: 0755

      owner: tomcat8

      group: tomcat8

  - name: Download Artifact from Artifactory

    become: yes

    get_url:

      url: https://urloftheartifac

      url_password: Sarav@123

      url_username: sarav

      dest: /opt/Downloads/MyWebApp.war

      mode: 0755

      group: tomcat8

      owner: tomcat8

      

  - name: Copy File to webapp folder

    become: yes

    copy:

      src: /opt/Downloads/MyWebApp.war

      dest: /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps

      remote_src: yes

      mode: 0755

      owner: tomcat8

      group: tomcat8

      

  - name: Delete a Directory /opt/Downloads

    become: yes

    file:

      path: /opt/Downloads

      state: absent

Datadog - Continuous Monitoring

 

How to enable Apache Tomcat monitoring in Datadog Agent

Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications that brings events and metrics from servers, databases, applications, tools and services to present a unified view of the infrastructure, which help them to work collaboratively on the infrastructure to avoid latency, resolve performance problems, and ensure that development and deployment cycles finish on time.

Apache Tomcat Integratoion with Datadog collects Following Tomcat metrics

• Overall activity metrics: error count, request count, processing times, etc.
• Thread pool metrics: thread count, number of threads busy, etc.
• Servlet processing times

Step 1 – Sign up for a Datadog Account

Go to : https://www.datadoghq.com/

Click on Free Trial

Fill the form to sign up

Next: Select your Stack. You can select Tomcat for now

Step 2: Install the datadog Agent on your Tomcat Server

Select your OS: Ubuntu

Then copy the command in the box: Use our easy one step install

Log into your Tomcat server and paste and run the command to install datadog agent

DD_AGENT_MAJOR_VERSION=7 DD_API_KEY=4cf1ee64a11f9c21c2020b85376e552c DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script.sh)"

Next Go to your Datadog account: Integrations

Click on Infrastructure--Infrastructure List:

Select your host: And you should see the metric graphs