Note: The following steps were performed in an Ubuntu machine.

Download apelon-docker project

git clone https://bitbucket.org/opencds/apelon-docker.git

Download apelon dts

cd apelon-docker
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/apelon-dts/files/dts-linux/3.5.2/apelon-dts-3.5.2.203-linux-mysql.tar.gz

Transfer Apelon content from other databases

If you need to transfer content from another database you can place your dts_dump_file.sql file in apelon-docker folder and uncomment the lines that refer to dts_dump_file.sql on Dockerfile and config_mysql.sh. This blog note describes how to migrate Apelon content from MS-SQL to MySQL

Dockerfile lines that refer dts_dump_file.sql

...
# Set up MySQL
#ADD dts_dump_file.sql /dts_dump_file.sql
ADD config_mysql.sh /config_mysql.sh
RUN chmod 755 /config_mysql.sh
RUN /config_mysql.sh; rm config_mysql.sh 
#RUN rm dts_dump_file.sql
ADD my.cnf /etc/my.cnf

config_mysql.sh that refer dts_dump_dile.sql

...
__start_mysql() {
echo "Running the start_mysql function."
mysqladmin -u root password mysqlPassword
mysql -uroot -pmysqlPassword -e "CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS dts DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_bin;"
mysql -uroot -pmysqlPassword -e "CREATE USER 'dts'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'dts';"
mysql -uroot -pmysqlPassword -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dts.* TO 'dts'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;"
mysql -uroot -pmysqlPassword -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
#mysql -uroot -pmysqlPassword dts < /dts_dump_file.sql
killall mysqld
sleep 10
}

Build and deploy container

Build image

sudo docker build -t="opencds/apelon:centos6" .

Create container

sudo docker run -d --name apelon opencds/apelon:centos6

Access ApelonDTS on the Browser

Apelon browser will be available on x.x.x.x:8081/dtstreebrowser
starting server on x.x.x.x:6666

Find out the ipaddress of the container:
sudo docker inspect apelon | grep IPAddress

Secure socket:
username:opencds.guest
password:welcome2opencds
host:actual ipaddress
port: 6666

References

ApelonDTS

http://apelon-dts.sourceforge.net/

Migrate MS-SQL apelon tontent to MySQL

http://salrod.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/migrate-ms-sql-apelon-content-to-mysql.html

Apelon container