Deploying Java webapp to Tomcat 8 running in Docker container

Question

I am pretty new to Tomcat and Docker - so I am probably missing a Tomcat fundamental somewhere in this question.

What I am trying to do is build a Docker container t

Answer 1

Tomcat will only extract the war which is copied to webapps directory. Change Dockerfile as below:

FROM tomcat:8.0.20-jre8
COPY /1.0-SNAPSHOT/my-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/myapp.war

You might need to access the url as below unless you have specified the webroot

http://192.168.59.103:8888/myapp/getData