Deploy Tomcat config and application contexts with Ansible!

tasks.yml

- name: Copy Tomcat config(s)
  template: src={{ item.src }} dest={{ item.dest }} mode={{ item.mode }} owner=root group=root
  with_items:
    - { src: 'tomcat/server.xml.j2', dest: '/etc/tomcat7/server.xml', mode: '0644' }
    - { src: 'tomcat/tomcat-users.xml.j2', dest: '/etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml', mode: '0640' }
  notify:
    - restart tomcat7
  tags: tomcat

- name: Prepare Tomcat web application contexts
  template: src=tomcat/context.xml.j2 dest={{ item.context_path }}
  with_items: dspace_webapps
  when: dspace_webapps is defined
  tags: tomcat

I prefer the array like syntax instead of one liners of strings. For actions with a many arguments its much clearer.

- name: Copy Tomcat config(s)
  template:
    src: "{{ item.src }}"
    dest: "{{ item.dest }}"
    # ...