Cnb tomcat container

[manojchander6]

I have 3 cnb pack based tomcats containers
Hosting my applications.

I am looking to containerize it into single container with cnb build packs .

Is it possible to run multiple tomcats inside single container .
Basically have 3 workspaces (webapps) folders and deploy our wars files .

[dmikusa]

It's not possible to run multiple instances of Tomcat in a single container with Paketo Buildpacks, nor would I recommend doing that. You should stick to one process per container, that is a pretty widely recommended practice (with the exception of side-cars).

There is a feature request to run multiple WAR applications in a single Tomcat instance. When that issue is implemented, you could deploy multiple applications within a single Tomcat process each on a separate context path all in the same container. The main difference is that there's only one Tomcat process, so while I don't think it's optimal it's not violating the rule above.

Feel free to subscribe to that issue to follow progress.