Passing Tomcat parameters to Docker

Question

I am new to Docker and I have a question that I can\'t seem to find the answer to. I am taking a Docker image (consol/tomcat-7.0) and wrote a Dockerfile that loads this image, c

Answer 1

There are at least two options I can think of:

• If server.xml supports environment variables, you could pass database connection details to the container via --env or even --env-file. Note that this has certain security implications.
• Another option would be to mount server.xml for a particular instance into the container via --volume.