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consoledocker run --name tomcat bitnami/tomcat:latest
You can find the default credentials and available configuration options in the Environment Variables section.
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The recommended way to get the Bitnami Apache Tomcat Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.
consoledocker pull bitnami/tomcat:latest
To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.
consoledocker pull bitnami/tomcat:[TAG]
If you wish, you can also build the image yourself by cloning the repository, changing to the directory containing the Dockerfile and executing the docker build command. Remember to replace the APP, VERSION and OPERATING-SYSTEM path placeholders in the example command below with the correct values.
consolegit clone [***] cd bitnami/APP/VERSION/OPERATING-SYSTEM docker build -t bitnami/APP:latest .
If you remove the container all your data and configurations will be lost, and the next time you run the image the database will be reinitialized. To avoid this loss of data, you should mount a volume that will persist even after the container is removed.
For persistence you should mount a directory at the /bitnami path. If the mounted directory is empty, it will be initialized on the first run.
consoledocker run -v /path/to/tomcat-persistence:/bitnami bitnami/tomcat:latest
Alternatively, modify the docker-compose.yml file present in this repository:
yamlservices: tomcat: ... volumes: - /path/to/tomcat-persistence:/bitnami ...
NOTE: As this is a non-root container, the mounted files and directories must have the proper permissions for the UID
1001.
The /bitnami/tomcat/data directory is configured as the Apache Tomcat webapps deployment directory. At this location, you either copy a so-called exploded web application, i.e. non-compressed, or a compressed web application resource (.WAR) file and it will automatically be deployed by Apache Tomcat.
Additionally a helper symlink /app is present that points to the webapps deployment directory which enables us to deploy applications on a running Apache Tomcat instance by simply doing:
consoledocker cp /path/to/app.war tomcat:/app
In case you want to create a custom image that already contains your application war file, you need to add it to the /opt/bitnami/tomcat/webapps folder. In the example below we create a forked image with an extra .war file.
DockerfileFROM bitnami/tomcat:latest COPY sample.war /opt/bitnami/tomcat/webapps
Note! You can also deploy web applications on a running Apache Tomcat instance using the Apache Tomcat management interface.
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To access your web server from your host machine you can ask Docker to map a random port on your host to port 8080 exposed in the container.
consoledocker run --name tomcat -P bitnami/tomcat:latest
Run docker port to determine the random ports Docker assigned.
console$ docker port tomcat 8080/tcp -> 0.0.0.0:32768
You can also manually specify the ports you want forwarded from your host to the container.
consoledocker run -p 8080:8080 bitnami/tomcat:latest
Access your web server in the browser by navigating to http://localhost:8080.
| Name | Description | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
TOMCAT_SHUTDOWN_PORT_NUMBER | Tomcat shutdown port number. | 8005 |
TOMCAT_HTTP_PORT_NUMBER | Tomcat HTTP port number. | 8080 |
TOMCAT_AJP_PORT_NUMBER | Tomcat AJP port number. | 8009 |
TOMCAT_USERNAME | Tomcat username. | manager |
TOMCAT_PASSWORD | Tomcat password. | nil |
TOMCAT_ALLOW_REMOTE_MANAGEMENT | Whether to allow connections from remote addresses to the Tomcat manager application. | yes |
TOMCAT_ENABLE_AUTH | Whether to enable authentication for Tomcat manager applications. | yes |
TOMCAT_ENABLE_AJP | Whether to enable the Tomcat AJP connector. | no |
TOMCAT_START_RETRIES | The number or retries while waiting for Catalina to start. | 12 |
TOMCAT_EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS | Additional Java settings for Tomcat. | nil |
TOMCAT_INSTALL_DEFAULT_WEBAPPS | Whether to add default webapps (ROOT, manager, host-manager, etc.) for deployment. | yes |
JAVA_OPTS | Java runtime parameters. | -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseG1GC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.net.preferIPv4Addresses=true -Duser.home=${TOMCAT_HOME} |
| Name | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
TOMCAT_BASE_DIR | Tomcat installation directory. | ${BITNAMI_ROOT_DIR}/tomcat |
TOMCAT_VOLUME_DIR | Tomcat persistence directory. | /bitnami/tomcat |
TOMCAT_BIN_DIR | Tomcat directory for binary files. | ${TOMCAT_BASE_DIR}/bin |
TOMCAT_LIB_DIR | Tomcat directory for library files. | ${TOMCAT_BASE_DIR}/lib |
TOMCAT_WORK_DIR | Tomcat directory for runtime files. | ${TOMCAT_BASE_DIR}/work |
TOMCAT_WEBAPPS_DIR | Tomcat directory where webapps are stored. | ${TOMCAT_VOLUME_DIR}/webapps |
TOMCAT_CONF_DIR | Tomcat configuration directory. | ${TOMCAT_BASE_DIR}/conf |
TOMCAT_DEFAULT_CONF_DIR | Tomcat default configuration directory. | ${TOMCAT_BASE_DIR}/conf.default |
TOMCAT_CONF_FILE | Tomcat configuration file. | ${TOMCAT_CONF_DIR}/server.xml |
TOMCAT_USERS_CONF_FILE | Tomcat configuration file. | ${TOMCAT_CONF_DIR}/tomcat-users.xml |
TOMCAT_LOGS_DIR | Directory where Tomcat logs are stored. | ${TOMCAT_BASE_DIR}/logs |
TOMCAT_TMP_DIR | Directory where Tomcat temporary files are stored. | ${TOMCAT_BASE_DIR}/temp |
TOMCAT_LOG_FILE | Path to the log file for Tomcat. | ${TOMCAT_LOGS_DIR}/catalina.out |
TOMCAT_PID_FILE | Path to the PID file for Tomcat. | ${TOMCAT_TMP_DIR}/catalina.pid |
TOMCAT_HOME | Tomcat home directory. | $TOMCAT_BASE_DIR |
TOMCAT_DAEMON_USER | Tomcat system user. | tomcat |
TOMCAT_DAEMON_GROUP | Tomcat system group. | tomcat |
JAVA_HOME | Java installation folder. | ${BITNAMI_ROOT_DIR}/java |
By default, a management user named manager is created and is not assigned a password. Passing the TOMCAT_PASSWORD environment variable when running the image for the first time will set the password of this user to the value of TOMCAT_PASSWORD.
Additionally you can specify a user name for the management user using the TOMCAT_USERNAME environment variable. When not specified, the TOMCAT_PASSWORD configuration is applied on the default user (manager).
This requires a minor change to the docker-compose.yml file present in this repository:
yamlservices: tomcat: ... environment: - TOMCAT_USERNAME=my_user - TOMCAT_PASSWORD=my_password ...
consoledocker run --name tomcat \ -e TOMCAT_USERNAME=my_user \ -e TOMCAT_PASSWORD=my_password \ bitnami/tomcat:latest
During the initialization of the container, the default Apache Tomcat configuration files are modified with the basic options defined through environment variables. If you want to add more specific configuration options, you can always mount your own configuration files under /opt/bitnami/tomcat/conf/ to override the existing ones. Please note that those files should be writable by the system user of the container.
consoledocker run --name tomcat -v /path/to/config/server.xml:/opt/bitnami/tomcat/conf/server.xml bitnami/tomcat:latest
or using Docker Compose:
yamlservices: tomcat: ... volumes: - /path/to/config/server.xml:/opt/bitnami/tomcat/conf/server.xml ...
Refer to the Apache Tomcat configuration manual for the complete list of configuration options.
The Bitnami Apache Tomcat Docker image from the Bitnami Secure Images catalog includes extra features and settings to configure the container with FIPS capabilities. You can configure the next environment variables:
OPENSSL_FIPS: whether OpenSSL runs in FIPS mode or not. yes (default), no.The Bitnami Apache Tomcat Docker image sends the container logs to the stdout. To view the logs:
consoledocker logs tomcat
or using Docker Compose:
consoledocker-compose logs tomcat
You can configure the containers logging driver using the --log-driver option if you wish to consume the container logs differently. In the default configuration docker uses the json-file driver.
Bitnami provides up-to-date versions of Apache Tomcat, including security patches, soon after they are made upstream. We recommend that you follow these steps to upgrade your container.
consoledocker pull bitnami/tomcat:latest
or if you're using Docker Compose, update the value of the image property to
bitnami/tomcat:latest.
Stop the currently running container using the command
consoledocker stop tomcat
or using Docker Compose:
consoledocker-compose stop tomcat
Next, take a snapshot of the persistent volume /path/to/tomcat-persistence using:
consolersync -a /path/to/tomcat-persistence /path/to/tomcat-persistence.bkp.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H.%M.%S)
consoledocker rm -v tomcat
or using Docker Compose:
consoledocker-compose rm -v tomcat
Re-create your container from the new image.
consoledocker run --name tomcat bitnami/tomcat:latest
or using Docker Compose:
consoledocker-compose up tomcat
rootfs/ folder.root user and the Apache Tomcat daemon was started as the tomcat user. From now on, both the container and the Apache Tomcat daemon run as user 1001. As a consequence, the data directory must be writable by that user. You can revert this behavior by changing USER 1001 to USER root in the Dockerfile.TOMCAT_USER parameter has been renamed to TOMCAT_USERNAME./bitnami/tomcat. Now you only need to mount a single volume at /bitnami/tomcat for persistence.stdout and are no longer collected in the volume.docker-compose.yamlPlease be aware this file has not undergone internal testing. Consequently, we advise its use exclusively for development or testing purposes. For production-ready deployments, we highly recommend utilizing its associated Bitnami Helm chart.
If you detect any issue in the docker-compose.yaml file, feel free to report it or contribute with a fix by following our Contributing Guidelines.
We'd love for you to contribute to this container. You can request new features by creating an issue or submitting a pull request with your contribution.
If you encountered a problem running this container, you can file an issue. For us to provide better support, be sure to fill the issue template.
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