An Ansible role to install, configure and update Confluence.

• Supported version of Ansible: 2.9 and highter.
• Supported platforms:
  • Debian
    • 10
    • 11
    • 12
  • RHEL
    • 7
    • 8
    • 9
  • Ubuntu
    • 18.04
    • 20.04
    • 22.04

• confluence_version The version of Confluence to download (default: 8.5.12).

• confluence_archive_name Confluence archive name (default: atlassian-confluence-8.5.12.tar.gz).

• confluence_download_url URL to download the Confluence archive (default: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/downloads/binary).

• confluence_checksum_url The Confluence checksum file URL (default: {{ confluence_download_url }}/{{ confluence_archive_name }}.sha256).

• confluence_download_path Local path to download and extract the archive (default: /tmp).

• confluence_user and confluence_group System user and group that will be created (default: confluence).

• confluence_root_path The Confluence installation directory (default: /opt/atlassian/confluence).

• confluence_home_path The Confluence home directory (default: /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence).

• confluence_jvm_minimum_memory and confluence_jvm_maximum_memory The minimum and maximum size of the heap (default: 1024m and 2048m).

• confluence_db_configuration DB connection settings, read documentation before enable (default: false). Atlassian ended support for datasource connections in Confluence 8.0.

• confluence_db_host Hostname or IP address of your database server.

• confluence_db_port TCP port number for your database server.

• confluence_db_name DB name.

• confluence_db_username and confluence_db_password Database username and password to be passed to the JDBC driver.

• confluence_tomcat_connector_proxyname Fqdn server name. If you don't use a reverse proxy, then you'll need to leave this variable without value.

• confluence_tomcat_connector_scheme Connection scheme. Available values: http (default), https.

  Attention If you use https value, you'll need to install SSL sertificate on server with reverse proxy.

• confluence_tomcat_connector_proxyport Server port (default: 80 or 443).

  • 80 sets automatically if value in confluence_tomcat_connector_scheme is http.
  • 443 sets automatically if value in confluence_tomcat_connector_scheme is https.

This role doesn't install a Java package, a reverse proxy (Apache or Nginx), or a database management system. You will need to install these packages before using the role.

Install Confluence, Java package, and configure a connection to the database through the Confluence web interface:

Install dependencies:

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Run playbook:

---
- name: Setup Confluence
  hosts: confluence

  roles:
    - role: antmelekhin.java
    - role: antmelekhin.confluence

MIT

Melekhin Anton.