On Tue, 28 Apr, 2020 at 11:44:20 +0200, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > Hi, > > We're running some web apps on CentOS 6 on Tomcat 6 shipped by the > distribution. > > As time goes by we'd like to move on to CentOS 8 and Tomcat 9 or whatever > is appropriate. > > My question is, what do others use now that Tomcat is not shipped anymore > with CentOS? > > Do you run some JBoss/WildFly instead or still running Tomcat? > > And, how do you install/manage those installations. Do you have RPM > packaged versions or fiddle with tarballs? > > Since this is a quite standard setup for web apps I'm really wondering how > everybody is doing it these days? I use the tarball provided by upstream on CentOS 7, since the distro-provided version is quite old. I created a 'tomcat' system user and gave it ownership of the extracted files under /opt. I also wrote a simple systemd unit file to manage the service in the usual way. If you take that approach be sure to subscribe to the tomcat-announce list in order to receive update announcements.