Deploy Tomcat App on Kubernetes

Apache Tomcat, also known as Tomcat Server, proves to be a popular choice for web developers building and maintaining dynamic websites and applications based on the Java software platform.

It’s reportedly called the ‘Tomcat’ web server because the founder saw it as an animal that could take care of and fend for itself.

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The Apache server is an HTTP web server, while the Apache Tomcat server is mainly a Java application server.

Kubernetes automates operational tasks of container management and includes built-in commands for deploying applications and rolling out changes to your applications.

Scaling your applications up and down to fit changing needs, monitoring your applications, and more making it easier to manage applications.

Deploying Tomcat on a Kubernetes cluster using a dedicated namespace, NodePort service, and a single deployment.

A Kubernetes namespace provides the scope for Pods, Services, and Deployments in the cluster. Users interacting with one namespace do not see the content in another namespace.

Create a Namespace for Tomcat

This creates a namespace named tomcat-namespace-ibbus to isolate Tomcat resources from other applications in our cluster.

kubectl create namespace tomcat-namespace-ibbus