OpenMRS provides a base Platform, and a reference implementation with default modules, which is the reference application.
This runs on top of tomcat:8-jre8-alpine.
OpenMRS depends on mysql:5.6 as database.
docker run --name openmrs-mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw -d mysql:5.6
Now run one giorgioazzinnaro/openmrs-platform instance linking it to openmrs-mysql (keep your MySQL password in mind for first configuration) and expose port 8080.
docker run --name openmrs-reference-application --link openmrs-mysql:mysql -it -p 8080:8080 giorgioazzinnaro/openmrs-reference-application:2.6.0
Point your browser to localhost:8080/openmrs, and select Advanced installation.
Change your database connection string to look like this:
jdbc:mysql://mysql:3306/@DBNAME@?autoReconnect=true&sessionVariables=default_storage_engine=InnoDB&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8
note localhost was replaced with mysql
Go on selecting the database to be created:
Do you currently have an OpenMRS database installed that you would like to connect to?: No
username: root
password: $MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD (the password you selected for your MySQL container)
On the next page, again enter $MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD so that the installer creates the new user.
Now change all other settings as desired.
After configuration Tomcat will complain with some errors, this is because it should be restarted to load all the modules
Keep MySQL running, stop openmrs-reference-application and start it again.
Press <Ctrl>-C in the shell where it was running, then:
docker run --name openmrs-reference-application --link openmrs-mysql:mysql -it -p 8080:8080 giorgioazzinnaro/openmrs-reference-application:2.6.0
For ease of use, a docker-compose.yml file is provided in the GitHub repo.