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There seems to be an issue with the web-application Dockerfile. I can confirm that all other containers are up and running without any issues. Any advice would be appreciated.

The following statement is not constructing the tomcatResources.xml file as expected:

RUN TOMCAT_CONTEXT_FILENAME=`ls $TOMCAT_CONTEXT_DIR | head -1` && \
TOMCAT_CONTEXT_PATH="$TOMCAT_CONTEXT_DIR/$TOMCAT_CONTEXT_FILENAME" && \
context=$(<$TOMCAT_CONTEXT_PATH) && \
datasources=$(<tomcatResources.xml) && \
echo "${context//<!-- BEGIN DATASOURCES -->[[:space:]]*<!-- END DATASOURCES -->/<!-- BEGIN DATASOURCES -->$'\n'$datasources$'\n' <!-- END DATASOURCES -->}" > $TOMCAT_CONTEXT_PATH

This is causing the following error on web-application container startup:

Waiting for these containers to start: search-server service-manager
Currently waiting for search-server
search-server is up!
Currently waiting for service-manager
service-manager is up!
Executing start command: /usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat/bin/catalina.sh run 2>&1 | tee /usr/local/appian/ae/logs/tomcat-stdOut.log && tail -f /usr/local/appian/ae/logs/tomcat-stdOut.log
2019-02-05 14:19:03.954 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version: Apache Tomcat/8.5.37
2019-02-05 14:19:03.959 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server built: Dec 12 2018 12:07:02 UTC
2019-02-05 14:19:03.959 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server number: 8.5.37.0
2019-02-05 14:19:03.960 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log OS Name: Linux
2019-02-05 14:19:03.960 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log OS Version: 4.9.125-linuxkit
2019-02-05 14:19:03.960 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Architecture: amd64
2019-02-05 14:19:03.960 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Java Home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.191.b12-1.el7_6.x86_64/jre
2019-02-05 14:19:03.960 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log JVM Version: 1.8.0_191-b12
2019-02-05 14:19:03.960 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log JVM Vendor: Oracle Corporation
2019-02-05 14:19:03.960 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat
2019-02-05 14:19:03.960 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat
2019-02-05 14:19:03.962 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat/conf/logging.properties
2019-02-05 14:19:03.962 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
2019-02-05 14:19:03.963 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048
2019-02-05 14:19:03.963 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=org.apache.catalina.webresources
2019-02-05 14:19:03.963 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dorg.apache.catalina.security.SecurityListener.UMASK=0027
2019-02-05 14:19:03.963 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -DjvmRoute=node1
2019-02-05 14:19:03.963 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
2019-02-05 14:19:03.963 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Duser.timezone=GMT
2019-02-05 14:19:03.963 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.naming.factory.initial=com.appiancorp.tomcat.naming.TomcatInitialContextFactory
2019-02-05 14:19:03.963 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.awt.headless=true
2019-02-05 14:19:03.963 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
2019-02-05 14:19:03.964 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000
2019-02-05 14:19:03.964 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000
2019-02-05 14:19:03.964 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:+UseCompressedOops
2019-02-05 14:19:03.964 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:-TieredCompilation
2019-02-05 14:19:03.964 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256M
2019-02-05 14:19:03.964 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
2019-02-05 14:19:03.964 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent
2019-02-05 14:19:03.964 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
2019-02-05 14:19:03.965 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:-TraceClassUnloading
2019-02-05 14:19:03.965 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:+PrintGCDetails
2019-02-05 14:19:03.965 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps
2019-02-05 14:19:03.965 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation
2019-02-05 14:19:03.965 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=5
2019-02-05 14:19:03.965 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:GCLogFileSize=3M
2019-02-05 14:19:03.965 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
2019-02-05 14:19:03.965 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -verbose:gc
2019-02-05 14:19:03.966 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dae.home=/usr/local/appian/ae
2019-02-05 14:19:03.966 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Xloggc:/usr/local/appian/ae/logs/tomcat/gc.log
2019-02-05 14:19:03.966 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Xms2048m
2019-02-05 14:19:03.967 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Xmx4096m
2019-02-05 14:19:03.967 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dignore.endorsed.dirs=
2019-02-05 14:19:03.967 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcatalina.base=/usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat
2019-02-05 14:19:03.967 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcatalina.home=/usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat
2019-02-05 14:19:03.968 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat/temp
2019-02-05 14:19:04.598 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
2019-02-05 14:19:04.619 INFO [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool.getSharedSelector Using a shared selector for servlet write/read
2019-02-05 14:19:04.655 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-nio-8009"]
2019-02-05 14:19:04.661 INFO [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool.getSharedSelector Using a shared selector for servlet write/read
2019-02-05 14:19:04.663 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Initialization processed in 949 ms
2019-02-05 14:19:04.671 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Starting service [Catalina]
2019-02-05 14:19:04.672 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/8.5.37
2019-02-05 14:19:04.695 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Deploying configuration descriptor [/usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/suite.xml]
2019-02-05 14:19:04.728 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Error deploying configuration descriptor [/usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/suite.xml]
java.io.FileNotFoundException: ../../tomcatResources.xml (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open0(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(FileInputStream.java:195)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:138)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:93)
at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:90)
at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:188)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:623)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:1304)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:1240)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEntityReference(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1908)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:3061)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:602)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:505)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:842)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:771)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:643)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1537)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:582)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1839)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

2019-02-05 14:19:04.798 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processContextConfig Parse error in context.xml for [/suite]
java.io.FileNotFoundException: ../../tomcatResources.xml (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open0(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(FileInputStream.java:195)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:138)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:93)
at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:90)
at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:188)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:623)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:1304)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:1240)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEntityReference(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1908)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:3061)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:602)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:505)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:842)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:771)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:643)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1518)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processContextConfig(ContextConfig.java:531)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.contextConfig(ContextConfig.java:488)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.init(ContextConfig.java:732)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:310)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:94)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setStateInternal(LifecycleBase.java:395)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:140)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:629)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1839)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

2019-02-05 14:19:04.812 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal ContainerBase.addChild: start: 
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [/suite]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:167)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:629)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1839)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to process either the global, per-host or context-specific context.xml file therefore the [/suite] Context cannot be started.
at org.apache.catalina.startup.FailedContext.startInternal(FailedContext.java:199)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 10 more

2019-02-05 14:19:04.815 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Error deploying configuration descriptor [/usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/suite.xml]
java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [/suite]
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:758)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:629)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1839)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

2019-02-05 14:19:04.818 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Deployment of configuration descriptor [/usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/suite.xml] has finished in [122] ms
2019-02-05 14:19:04.824 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.start Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
2019-02-05 14:19:04.840 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.start Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-nio-8009"]
2019-02-05 14:19:04.846 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Server startup in 183 ms

Anil Wale · Answer

I have manually copy tomcatResources.xml in to web-application container on path /usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/ 
and then start tomcat start up script in the container. Then application is started but tempo tab showing blank.

Philip Snyman · Answer

I think I have isolated the issue down to the history expansion feature for bash. It seems the history expansion feature is not enabled on the centos base container and this is causing the RUN command to fail when attempting to create the tomcatResources.xml file during the web-application build. I am by no means a linux expert but I believe I am on the right track.