Ansible Role: Apache Solr

An Ansible Role that installs Apache Solr on Linux servers.

Requirements

Java must be available on the server. You can easily install Java using the geerlingguy.java role.

This role is currently tested and working with Solr 3.x and 4.x; 5.x is not yet fully tested.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see vars/main.yml):

solr_workspace: /root

Files will be downloaded to this path on the remote server before being moved into place.

solr_create_user: true
solr_user: solr

Solr will be run under Jetty as the solr_user. Set solr_create_user to false if solr_user is created before this role runs.

solr_version: "4.10.4"

The Apache Solr version to install.

solr_install_path: /opt/solr

The path where Apache Solr will be installed.

solr_home: /var/solr

The path where local Solr data (search collections and configuration) will be stored. Should typically be outside of the solr_path, to make Solr upgrades easier.

solr_log_file_path: /var/log/solr.log

Path where Solr log file will be created.

solr_port: "8983"

The port on which Solr will run.

solr_xms: "256M"
solr_xmx: "512M"

Memory settings for the JVM. These should be set as high as you can allow for best performance and to reduce the chance of Solr restarting itself due to OOM situations.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: solr-servers
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.java }
    - { role: geerlingguy.solr }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.