Apache Tomcat Server from Beginners to Advanced (Udemy.com)
The Essential Next Step for Java/J2EE, Spring AI Developers, DevOps Professionals and Architects.
Created by: Amit Kumar
Last updated April 2026
What you will learn
- Installing Tomcat on Windows and Linux Machine
- Deploying Web Application on Container
- WAR file Deployment on AWS and Google Cloud
- Creating SSL Keys and Security Concepts
- HTTPS Configuration- Diverting traffic on HTTPS
- Hosting Multiple JavaApps using Virtual Hosts
- Building High-Availability (HA) clusters
- Scaling Concepts to handle millions of requests/sec
- LoadBalancing Traffic Using Nginx and Apache HTTP Server
- Understanding Log Files and How to Approach and use it for troubleshooting
- JNDI - Configuration
- JDBC Realms - Configuration
- Session Replication - Configuration
- Stickey Sessions - Configuration
- Valve - Interception Configuration at different layers
- Setting Custom Error Pages - OOPs Something Went Wrong
- Performance Engineering: Debug memory leaks, optimize Garbage Collection, and tune thread pools for 99.9% uptime.
How it compares
Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 30% of them
- Reviews6,139#91 of 1,183 by number of reviews
- Length8.2 hourslonger than 63% of them
- Last updatedApril 2026more recently than 71% of them
Course Description
Covers core concepts applicable to Apache Tomcat 9, 10, and 11 environments.
If you are a Java/J2EE, Spring AI Developer or DevOps Professional or Architect this is for you. Now learn how to run Java applications in production using Apache Tomcat.
Java developers often learn how to write code, but many struggle when it comes to deploying, securing, monitoring, and managing Java applications in a real production environment. This course is designed to bridge that gap.
In this hands-on Apache Tomcat course, you will learn how to deploy Java web applications, configure Tomcat servers, enable SSL, manage logs, tune performance, monitor memory and threads, configure clustering, and prepare for real-world production scenarios.
The course starts with the fundamentals of Apache Tomcat and gradually moves into advanced server administration topics. You will learn how Tomcat works as a servlet container, how Java web applications are deployed, how configuration files are structured, and how to manage Tomcat on Windows, Linux, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Apache Tomcat is one of the most widely used servlet containers and also forms the foundation for many Java middleware and application server environments. A strong understanding of Tomcat helps Java developers, middleware administrators, DevOps engineers, and system administrators manage Java applications with more confidence.
This course covers important production-level topics such as:
Tomcat installation and setup on Windows and Linux
Java web application deployment
Tomcat folder structure and configuration files
SSL and HTTPS configuration
Virtual host configuration
Clustering and high availability concepts
Load balancing with Nginx and Apache HTTP Server
Session management and sticky sessions
JNDI and JDBC connection pooling
Logging and log file customization
Memory management and thread monitoring
Performance tuning and troubleshooting
Running Tomcat on AWS and Google Cloud
Frequently asked Tomcat interview questions
Configuring a production server can be confusing for beginners. This course simplifies complex Tomcat concepts through practical, step-by-step demonstrations so that you can understand not just what to configure, but why it matters.
Bonus supplementary lectures are also added from time to time based on student demand, including interview preparation, cloud deployment, and real-world troubleshooting topics.
So, if you have completed a Java programming course, Java bootcamp, Servlet/JSP course, or Spring course, this is the next important step: learning how to take your Java application from development to production.
By the end of this course, you will have the practical knowledge required to deploy, secure, monitor, tune, and administer Apache Tomcat servers in real-world environments.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
6,139 Reviews
Amit Kumar
Possess rich experience of over 25 years in architecture design, developing software for various domains. Have rich expertise in Java/J2EE full stack, microservices, NoSQL, BigData, middleware, Python, JS stuff and eLearning. Providing consulting service on various platforms to major companies. In my free time, like to create technical content, which is easy to follow and really helps people in the software industry, do their job better.
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Reviews
By Anonymized User on 10/1/2024
Good Course for Refreshing Tomcat concepts but Audio but not clearly in most of the lectures and It would be great if support docs are available for this course.
By Piotr Drążkiewicz on 1/31/2024
I've learnt many useful features of the Tomcat, so I'm happy that I've realised this course which it can helps me in my job tasks. I want to thank you especcially for the lesson about the connection between the Tomcat and the Apache via mod_jk as a loadbalancer. It would be great if you will show the lesson about using ssl in this configuration.
By Marco Markgraf on 5/16/2023
Als erfahrenem Linux-Admin rollen sich mir bei der Installationsanleitung die Zehennägel hoch. Ja, das funktioniert so, aber tomcat ist bei den meisten Distributionen in den Paketquellen enthalten und kann von dort installiert werden. Wenn man schon .tar.gz auspackt, sollte man den traditionellen UNIX-Ansatz verwenden und die Ordner nicht umbenennen, sondern einen sprechenden symlink dorthin legen. Der tomcat sollte auch nicht als "root" laufen --ich hoffe das wird in Abschnitt 4 dann behandelt...
By Doug Nguyen on 3/20/2023
Thank you Amit. Well structured and great pace as of March 2023. From the reviews / comments below, I believe there are updates and improvements over time.
By Anonymized User on 7/13/2022
He is having very good skills on these topics apache, nginx and tomcat and has described and implemented everything in a very simple way and has covered almost everything and has helped me to fix 2 issues which i was facing while practicing. Thanks a lot Sir for creating this course and helping us through...:)
By Syed Ali Hamza on 12/21/2021
When the course title said "Beginners to Advanced", I expected a lot more detail. The course delivers content enough to scratch the surface on tomcat. It's good for a PoC, sandbox environment learning but doesn't cover much from a production-scenario best practices. For example, guiding on installing tomcat as a startup service (important for a prod environment), covering tomcat native library, ARP concepts, etc. A lot could be explained on the setenv file from a configurations perspective. I'd say it's a "beginner to intermediate" course because of the lack of tomcat details.
By Ronaldo Camarini on 12/6/2020
complete, covered the main points!
By Valentina Pazzarelli on 12/6/2020
The audio is awful, he skips many steps and there weren't enoguh resources or tests. I'm very disappointed
By Andrea Pozzoli on 12/6/2020
He skips many steps, videos have bad audio, he makes many typos and he doesn't provide information about creating multiple virtual machines to test the intermediate part. Also there aren't enough tests, challenges and resources.
By Ahmed A on 12/6/2020
Interesting but there not too much advanced topics as it is meant to be. Interceptors, valves, listeners, memory are topics that are briefly invoked !
Would have appreciated a pdf presentation to have notes on it.
Course not well organized for example you don't know in which sections memory, valves interceptors are invoked
By Abdul Rajak Khan on 11/26/2020
This is very good course. The explanation and details are very good.
By deepak karnany on 11/24/2020
How was Apache and Jdk installer transferred to Linux machine.
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Overall Score : 88 / 100
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