How to install Tomcat container for Docker in Fedora 28?

Question

I am new in Docker , I would like to know how to install Tomcat Container from the command line, also, what are the pre-requisites, do I need to download Java on Fedora 28 first? Or Tomcat already contains a JVM ?

Answer 1

The tomcat/8.5/jre8/Dockerfile image definition starts with

FROM openjdk:8-jre

So it already includes a JDK.

All you need to do is run the default Tomcat server (CMD ["catalina.sh", "run"]):

$ docker run -it --rm tomcat:8.0

You can test it by visiting http://container-ip:8080

See more at hub.docker.com/_/tomcat/ .

All you need is to install docker first .

The OP adds:

To be able to connect I had to run below command to get the container ID with

 docker ps docker inspect <containerid> | grep "IPAddress"