Docker-CE: Setting up a tomcat in less than a minute and running your JSP...

Last time i wrote about processes and files of a docker container hosting the docker example myapp.py.
Next step was to run a tomcat with a small application inside.

This can be done with theses commands:

1. Get tomcat from the docker library:
   # docker pull tomcat
   Using default tag: latest
   latest: Pulling from library/tomcat
   3e17c6eae66c: Pull complete
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   06e4787b3ca5: Pull complete
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   d7e1da09fc22: Pull complete
   Digest: sha256:a069d49c414bad0d98f5a4d7f9b7fdd318ccc451dc535084480c8aead68272d2
   Status: Downloaded newer image for tomcat:latest
2. Test the tomcat:
   # docker run -p 4000:8080 tomcat
   20-Nov-2017 20:38:11.754 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version:        Apache Tomcat/8.5.23
   20-Nov-2017 20:38:11.762 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server built:          Sep 28 2017 10:30:11 UTC
   20-Nov-2017 20:38:11.762 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server number:         8.5.23.0
   ....
   ....
   org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.destroy Destroying ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
   20-Nov-2017 20:41:59.928 INFO [Thread-5] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.destroy Destroying ProtocolHandler ["ajp-nio-8009"] 

This was easy.
Now create your JSP and run it:

1. create a directory
   mkdir tomcatstatus
2. create a jsp inside this direcotry
   vi tomcatstatus/index.jsp
   and insert the following content:
   <%@ page language="java" import="java.util.*" %>
   
   
   Host name : <%=java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName() %>
   
   Server Version: <%= application.getServerInfo() %>
   
   Servlet Version: <%= application.getMajorVersion() %>.<%= application.getMinorVersion(
   ) %>
   JSP Version: <%= JspFactory.getDefaultFactory().getEngineInfo().getSpecificationVersio
   n() %>
3. Run docker
   docker run -v /home/schroff/tomcatstatus:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/status -p 4000:8080 tomcat
4. Connect to port 4000:

Wow - i am really stunned how fast the tomcat was setup and the jsp was launched. No installation of java (ok, this is only apt install) and no setup procedure for Apache tomcat (ok, this is just a tar -zxvf). But if i want to run more than one installation - docker is faster than repeating the installation or copying files.  Really cool!


(One thing i forgot: Installation of docker onto your server)

Related posts:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings)