Simple and production ready Tomcat docker images on top of CentOS

This repository contains Dockerfile of Tomcat for Docker's automated build published to the public Docker Hub.

The following extra components and configurations has been applied to the Tomcat server in these images to make it production ready:

• Unecessary files(.exe, .bat, etc.) and default applications(like host manager) has been removed to reduce image size
• APR support, version 1.7.0
• TC Native support, version 1.2.23

Docker Tags

sgrio/tomcat provides several tagged images:

• Default (Your best choice)

  • latest: pointed to 8.5.64-jdk8-centos7

• Tomcat 9 Comming soon.

• Tomcat 8.5

  • Java 8
    • 8.5.64-jdk8-centos7: Tomcat version 8.5.64 with OpenJDK 8

• Tomcat 7

  • Java 8
    • 7.0.96-jdk8-centos7: Tomcat version 7.0.96 with OpenJDK 8

Installation

1. Install Docker.

2. Download automated build from public Docker Hub: docker pull sgrio/tomcat

Usage

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -v /path/to/webapp:/opt/apache-tomcat sgrio/tomcat

Advanced

You can always mount your own volumns to override the default configurations. I assume you know how to do that, right?