Need to use maven on a local machine to compile the tomcat app, create deployments folder, move the tomcat app to deployments folder, then new build; as described in: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_middleware_for_openshift/3/html/red_hat_jboss_web_server_for_openshift/get_started#binary_builds

Login to openshift cluster using oc. oc new -app \ https: //github.com/jboss-openshift/openshift-quickstarts.git#master \ --image-stream=jboss-webserver31-tomcat8-openshift \ --context-dir= 'tomcat-websocket-chat' \ --build-env= "MAVEN_ARGS= clean package -e -Dcom.redhat.xpaas.repo.redhatga" \ --build-env= "ARTIFACT_DIR=tomcat-websocket-chat/target/" \ --name=jws-wsch-app Note: using custom MAVEN_ARGS as workaround for openshift profile not included in the quickstart pom.xml ( https://github.com/jboss-openshift/openshift-quickstarts/issues/37 ) Build Log attached. Lines of relevance to the bug are: Copying all war artifacts from /tmp/src/tomcat-websocket-chat/target/ directory into /opt/webserver/webapps for later deployment... Copying all war artifacts from /tmp/src/deployments directory into /opt/webserver/webapps for later deployment... Although war artifacts are copied from the deployments directory, they are not copied from the target directory. To confirm: `oc debug <pod>` `oc attach <debug_pod>` /tmp/src/tomcat-websocket-chat/target/websocket-chat.war exists /opt/webserver/webapps/websocket-chat.war does not exist.