Hello everyone,
I'm trying to set up a box where there is three tomcats installations, all of them full installations (and not instances) (different binary version requirements)
I tried different things, such as creating multiple client/node on the same machine and setting different run list.
However,
I'm not sure this is supported configuration and this causes issue as
well because cookbooks will at some point try to manage the same
resources and cancel the changes from the other one.
I
was thinking otherwise of forking a tomcat cookbook, replace all the
variables for example default['tomcat']['port'] to
default['project1']['tomcat']['port'] but that would mean
integrating any new changes to the tomcat cookbook would be very
complicated. Also, if I have three project on the same box, I'll need to
change that three times.
Is there any way to do something like this with Chef? Or should I look at docker + chef eventually?
The same questions applies to java, if I need three different version of java for the tomcats, then I also need to manage three replicas of the java cookbooks.