Question
What is TCP port 8080 typically used for?
Answer
Jenkins, Docker, NodeJS, Apache Ambari, Apache Marathon, Apache Tomcat, Amazon Web Services' Elastic Load Balancer, JBoss Application Server, GitLab, M2MLogger (remote monitoring), InfoSphere BigInsights Console (IBM's proprietary Hadoop and Spark solution), JasperReports (because of Apache Tomcat), remote management of physical routers, and enterprise network proxy services all commonly use port 8080.
In part, taken from Learning AWS, reference.com, Adobe's website (the old website was http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/securityHardening.pdf), Jaspersoft's website, and IBM's website (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSPT3X_2.1.2/com.ibm.swg.im.infosphere.biginsights.install.doc/doc/c0057855.html).