Ansible Role: Maven

Role to install the Apache Maven build tool.

Requirements

• Ansible Core >= 2.16

• Linux Distribution

  • Debian Family

    • Debian

      • Bullseye (11)
      • Bookworm (12)

    • Ubuntu

      • Jammy (22.04)
      • Noble (24.04)

  • RedHat Family

    • Rocky Linux

      • 9

    • Fedora

      • 41

  • SUSE Family

    • openSUSE

      • Tumbleweed

  • Note: other versions are likely to work but have not been tested.

• Java SE Development Kit (JDK)

  • The required JDK version is dependent on the Apache Maven version

    Maven Version	Minimum JDK Version
    3.9.x	8
    3.8.x	7
    3.6.x	7
    3.5.x	7
    3.3.x	7
    3.2.x	6
    3.1.x	5

Role Variables

The following variables will change the behavior of this role (default values are shown below):

# Maven version number
maven_version: '3.9.4'

# Mirror to download the Maven redistributable package from
maven_mirror: "http://archive.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-{{ maven_version|regex_replace('\\..*', '') }}/{{ maven_version }}/binaries"

# Base installation directory the Maven distribution
maven_install_dir: /opt/maven

# Directory to store files downloaded for Maven installation
maven_download_dir: "{{ x_ansible_download_dir | default(ansible_env.HOME + '/.ansible/tmp/downloads') }}"

# The number of seconds to wait before the Maven download times-out
maven_download_timeout: 10

# Whether to use the proxy when downloading Maven (if the proxy environment variable is present)
maven_use_proxy: true

# Whether to validate HTTPS certificates when downloading Maven
maven_validate_certs: true

# If this is the default installation, symbolic links to mvn and mvnDebug will
# be created in /usr/local/bin
maven_is_default_installation: true

# Name of the group of Ansible facts relating this Maven installation.
#
# Override if you want use this role more than once to install multiple versions
# of Maven.
#
# e.g. maven_fact_group_name: maven_3_3
# would change the Maven home fact to:
# ansible_local.maven_3_2.general.home
maven_fact_group_name: maven

Supported Maven Versions

The following versions of Maven are supported without any additional configuration (for other versions follow the Advanced Configuration instructions):

• 3.9.4
• 3.9.3
• 3.9.2
• 3.9.1
• 3.9.0
• 3.8.8
• 3.8.7
• 3.8.6
• 3.8.5
• 3.8.4
• 3.8.3
• 3.8.2
• 3.8.1
• 3.6.3
• 3.6.2
• 3.6.1
• 3.6.0
• 3.5.4
• 3.5.3
• 3.5.2
• 3.5.0
• 3.3.9
• 3.2.5
• 3.1.1

Advanced Configuration

The following role variable is dependent on the Maven version; to use a Maven version not pre-configured by this role you must configure the variable below:

# SHA256 sum for the redistributable package (i.e. apache-maven-{{ maven_version }}-bin.tar.gz)
maven_redis_sha256sum: '6e3e9c949ab4695a204f74038717aa7b2689b1be94875899ac1b3fe42800ff82'

Example Playbooks

By default this role will install the latest version of Maven supported by this role:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.maven

You can install a specific version of Maven by specifying the maven_version (note: if the version is not currently supported by this role then additional configuration will be required - see Advanced Configuration):

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.maven
      maven_version: '3.3.9'

You can install the multiple versions of Maven by using this role more than once:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.maven
      maven_version: '3.3.9'
      maven_is_default_installation: true
      maven_fact_group_name: maven

    - role: gantsign.maven
      maven_version: '3.2.5'
      maven_is_default_installation: false
      maven_fact_group_name: maven_3_2

Role Facts

This role exports the following Ansible facts for use by other roles:

• ansible_local.maven.general.version

  • e.g. 3.3.9

• ansible_local.maven.general.home

  • e.g. /opt/maven/apache-maven-3.3.9

Overriding maven_fact_group_name will change the names of the facts e.g.:

maven_fact_group_name: maven_3_2

Would change the name of the facts to:

• ansible_local.maven_3_2.general.version
• ansible_local.maven_3_2.general.home

Related Roles

You may find the following related roles useful:

• gantsign.java for installing the JDK.

• gantsign.maven-notifier for providing a GUI notification when a build ends.

  • Installs the Maven Notifier extension for Maven authored by Jean-Christophe Gay.

More Roles From GantSign

You can find more roles from GantSign on Ansible Galaxy.

Development & Testing

This project uses the following tooling:

• Molecule for orchestrating test scenarios
• Testinfra for testing the changes on the remote
• pytest the testing framework
• Tox manages Python virtual environments for linting and testing
• pip-tools for managing dependencies

A Visual Studio Code Dev Container is provided for developing and testing this role.

License

MIT

Author Information

John Freeman

GantSign Ltd. Company No. 06109112 (registered in England)