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15 Hands-on labs

Tomcat Administration Deep Dive

By Kevin James

Dive into what Tomcat is, how it’s configured and installed, day-to-day maintenance tasks, and how to deploy your Java application.

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6 hours
  • 51 Lessons
  • 15 Hands-On Labs

About the course

Apache Tomcat® software is an open-source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language, and Java WebSocket technologies.

In this course, we will dive into what Tomcat is, how it’s configured and installed, day-to-day maintenance tasks, and how to deploy your Java application. We will also go over basic troubleshooting and optimization to get the most out of your application server.

In this course, we will be using Tomcat 9 and Red Hat Enterprise 8 in the the examples and hands-on lab environments.

The Git repository used for this course can be found at https://github.com/linuxacademy/tomcat-admin-deep-dive.

Lab Highlights

Enable Verbose Garbage Collection Back Up and Restore Tomcat Deploy a Tomcat Application Dynamically Deploy a Tomcat Application Statically Deploy a Tomcat Application Using the GUI Set Fixed Heap Size in Tomcat Create Java Heap Dumps for Tomcat Configure Logging in Tomcat Deploy a Tomcat Application Using the CLI Load Balance a Tomcat Application Set up Apache as a Proxy to Tomcat Change Tomcat for External Access Tomcat on a Different Port Adding a User to Tomcat Installing Tomcat
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  • Chapter 1 3 Lessons About This course 6:27

    An Important Note About A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy Courses

    1:19

    About This Course

    3:33

    About the Training Architect

    1:35
  • Chapter 2 6 Lessons What Is Tomcat 31:07

    What Is Tomcat

    5:24

    The Services Tomcat Provides

    3:48

    WAR Files Only, Please

    5:48

    Tomcat and Its Uses

    5:50

    Tomcat Day-to-Day

    6:12

    Comparisons Between Java Application Servers

    4:05
  • Chapter 3 16 Lessons Install and Configure Tomcat 5:10:09

    Installing on Linux

    13:04

    Installing on Windows 2019 Server

    4:11

    The Configuration Files

    5:18

    Adding Users to Tomcat

    9:57

    The server.xml file

    8:36

    The web.xml file

    7:26

    Remote Access to the Tomcat Manager GUI

    6:28

    Changing the Port for Tomcat

    6:51

    Apache as a Proxy to Tomcat

    12:22

    Load Balancing

    10:56

    Installing Tomcat

    45:00 Hands-On Lab

    Adding a User to Tomcat

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Tomcat on a Different Port

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Change Tomcat for External Access

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Set up Apache as a Proxy to Tomcat

    45:00 Hands-On Lab

    Load Balance a Tomcat Application

    45:00 Hands-On Lab
  • Chapter 4 3 Lessons The Tomcat Manager GUI 17:30

    Server Status

    5:11

    Manager App

    5:15

    Host Manager

    7:04
  • Chapter 5 11 Lessons Application Management 3:41:25

    Virtual Host Management Non GUI

    5:34

    WAR Files

    5:51

    Deploy via the Web GUI

    8:03

    Deploy via the CLI

    5:29

    Static vs Dynamic Deployment

    6:04

    Backups

    10:24

    Deploy a Tomcat Application Using the GUI

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Deploy a Tomcat Application Using the CLI

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Deploy a Tomcat Application Statically

    45:00 Hands-On Lab

    Deploy a Tomcat Application Dynamically

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Backup and Restore Tomcat

    45:00 Hands-On Lab
  • Chapter 6 11 Lessons Troubleshooting and Tuning 3:32:59

    Diagnostics

    6:08

    Logging

    8:25

    Garbage Collection

    9:09

    JVM Tuning

    11:42

    ULimits and Fixed Heap Size

    9:56

    Using JConsole

    7:16

    Create and Analyze Java Heap Dumps

    10:23

    Configure Logging in Tomcat

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Create Java Heap Dumps for Tomcat

    45:00 Hands-On Lab

    Set Fixed Heap Size in Tomcat

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Enable Verbose Garbage Collection

    45:00 Hands-On Lab
  • Chapter 7 1 Lesson Conclusion 3:45

    Next Steps

    3:45

What are Hands-on Labs

What's the difference between theoretical knowledge and real skills? Practical real-world experience. That's where Hands-on Labs come in! Hands-on Labs are guided, interactive experiences that help you learn and practice real-world scenarios in real cloud environments. Hands-on Labs are seamlessly integrated in courses, so you can learn by doing.

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