Tomcat Server with Docker [in progress]

We can start using Docker and creating a container with it.

Required installations

• Docker

Create docker file using example below and save as dockerfile

FROM openjdk:8-jdk

ENV CATALINA_HOME /usr/local/tomcat
ENV PATH $CATALINA_HOME/bin:$PATH
RUN mkdir -p "$CATALINA_HOME"
WORKDIR $CATALINA_HOME

# let "Tomcat Native" live somewhere isolated
ENV TOMCAT_NATIVE_LIBDIR $CATALINA_HOME/native-jni-lib
ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:}$TOMCAT_NATIVE_LIBDIR

# see https://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-$TOMCAT_MAJOR/KEYS
# see also "update.sh" (https://github.com/docker-library/tomcat/blob/master/update.sh)
ENV GPG_KEYS 05AB33110949707C93A279E3D3EFE6B686867BA6 07E48665A34DCAFAE522E5E6266191C37C037D42 47309207D818FFD8DCD3F83F1931D684307A10A5 541FBE7D8F78B25E055DDEE13C370389288584E7 61B832AC2F1C5A90F0F9B00A1C506407564C17A3 79F7026C690BAA50B92CD8B66A3AD3F4F22C4FED 9BA44C2621385CB966EBA586F72C284D731FABEE A27677289986DB50844682F8ACB77FC2E86E29AC A9C5DF4D22E99998D9875A5110C01C5A2F6059E7 DCFD35E0BF8CA7344752DE8B6FB21E8933C60243 F3A04C595DB5B6A5F1ECA43E3B7BBB100D811BBE F7DA48BB64BCB84ECBA7EE6935CD23C10D498E23

ENV TOMCAT_MAJOR 9
ENV TOMCAT_VERSION 9.0.22
ENV TOMCAT_SHA512 9d3d93f8e03b5dc74e8d2ebc3f9daeb481485a391fb10289e23848063c23f52e8cf8566ebc7ff4f62c9b9f71591fad368a2bab487d31377c85a2607be3e029ff

RUN set -eux; \
	\
	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
	apt-get update; \
	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
		gnupg dirmngr \
		wget ca-certificates \
	; \
	\
	ddist() { \
		local f="$1"; shift; \
		local distFile="$1"; shift; \
		local success=; \
		local distUrl=; \
		for distUrl in \
# https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8753?focusedCommentId=14735394#comment-14735394
			'https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?action=download&filename=' \
# if the version is outdated (or we're grabbing the .asc file), we might have to pull from the dist/archive :/
			https://www-us.apache.org/dist/ \
			https://www.apache.org/dist/ \
			https://archive.apache.org/dist/ \
		; do \
			if wget -O "$f" "$distUrl$distFile" && [ -s "$f" ]; then \
				success=1; \
				break; \
			fi; \
		done; \
		[ -n "$success" ]; \
	}; \
	\
	ddist 'tomcat.tar.gz' "tomcat/tomcat-$TOMCAT_MAJOR/v$TOMCAT_VERSION/bin/apache-tomcat-$TOMCAT_VERSION.tar.gz"; \
	echo "$TOMCAT_SHA512 *tomcat.tar.gz" | sha512sum --strict --check -; \
	ddist 'tomcat.tar.gz.asc' "tomcat/tomcat-$TOMCAT_MAJOR/v$TOMCAT_VERSION/bin/apache-tomcat-$TOMCAT_VERSION.tar.gz.asc"; \
	export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
	for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
		gpg --batch --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys "$key"; \
	done; \
	gpg --batch --verify tomcat.tar.gz.asc tomcat.tar.gz; \
	tar -xf tomcat.tar.gz --strip-components=1; \
	rm bin/*.bat; \
	rm tomcat.tar.gz*; \
	command -v gpgconf && gpgconf --kill all || :; \
	rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
	\
	nativeBuildDir="$(mktemp -d)"; \
	tar -xf bin/tomcat-native.tar.gz -C "$nativeBuildDir" --strip-components=1; \
	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
		dpkg-dev \
		gcc \
		libapr1-dev \
		libssl-dev \
		make \
	; \
	( \
		export CATALINA_HOME="$PWD"; \
		cd "$nativeBuildDir/native"; \
		gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
		aprConfig="$(command -v apr-1-config)"; \
		./configure \
			--build="$gnuArch" \
			--libdir="$TOMCAT_NATIVE_LIBDIR" \
			--prefix="$CATALINA_HOME" \
			--with-apr="$aprConfig" \
			--with-java-home="$JAVA_HOME" \
			--with-ssl=yes; \
		make -j "$(nproc)"; \
		make install; \
	); \
	rm -rf "$nativeBuildDir"; \
	rm bin/tomcat-native.tar.gz; \
	\
# reset apt-mark's "manual" list so that "purge --auto-remove" will remove all build dependencies
	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
	find "$TOMCAT_NATIVE_LIBDIR" -type f -executable -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
		| awk '/=>/ { print $(NF-1) }' \
		| sort -u \
		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
		| cut -d: -f1 \
		| sort -u \
		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
	; \
	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
	\
# sh removes env vars it doesn't support (ones with periods)
# https://github.com/docker-library/tomcat/issues/77
	find ./bin/ -name '*.sh' -exec sed -ri 's|^#!/bin/sh$|#!/usr/bin/env bash|' '{}' +; \
	\
# fix permissions (especially for running as non-root)
# https://github.com/docker-library/tomcat/issues/35
	chmod -R +rX .; \
	chmod 777 logs work

# verify Tomcat Native is working properly
RUN set -e \
	&& nativeLines="$(catalina.sh configtest 2>&1)" \
	&& nativeLines="$(echo "$nativeLines" | grep 'Apache Tomcat Native')" \
	&& nativeLines="$(echo "$nativeLines" | sort -u)" \
	&& if ! echo "$nativeLines" | grep 'INFO: Loaded APR based Apache Tomcat Native library' >&2; then \
		echo >&2 "$nativeLines"; \
		exit 1; \
	fi

EXPOSE 8080
CMD ["catalina.sh", "run"]

To build an image from this dockerfile you need to run that command line:

docker build -t tomcat-project .

Starting Tomcat Server:

docker run -p 8080:8080 --detach tomcat-project