How to run tomcat catalina script on Ansible

Question

I am trying to setup Ansible playbook for tomcat application deployment. Apart from starting tomcat everything works without any issues. When i use startup.sh it works but i need to start tomcat with catalina.sh script.

   - name: start tomcat
     command: ./bin/catalina.sh start
     args:
       chdir: /websrv/tomcat/tomcat-8080/

This is what i am trying to do, it says started but it was never started.

TASK [start tomcat] ************************************************************
changed: [appserver.example.com]

Please help.

Note: I am using zipped version of tomcat on centos and have not installed tomcat. So if anyone shed light on how to start the script it would be really helpful.

Answer 1

If you want a quick solution to run tomcat server unattached from Ansible's TTY use the following:

- name: "Starting Apache server"
  command: nohup {{ apache_install_location }}/tomcat9/bin/startup.sh