Is it possible to run gRPC service inside a tomcat container ?

[sk1188]

I have a Spring Boot application running on a tomcat server with a few REST endpoints exposed.

As gRPC can be deployed as a standalone service , it manages it’s own connections and port. Wouldn’t it be problematic to go with this approach of running it on a tomcat server ?

[creamsoup]

there was an effort to provide a layer on top of servlet api to use gRPC server.
you may find #1621 and the implementation #4738 useful.

cc @dapengzhang0 who drove the effort

[dapengzhang0]

If you don't share the gRPC port with REST port, then there is no problem at all. There are also tools to manage gRPC with spring boot (e.g. https://github.com/yidongnan/grpc-spring-boot-starter) .

[ejona86]

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