diff --git a/titan-gremlin/Dockerfile b/titan-gremlin/Dockerfile
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+FROM itzg/ubuntu-openjdk-7
+
+MAINTAINER itzg
+
+RUN apt-get install -y wget unzip
+
+RUN wget -q -O /tmp/titan.zip http://s3.thinkaurelius.com/downloads/titan/titan-0.5.0-hadoop2.zip
+RUN unzip /tmp/titan.zip -d /opt && rm /tmp/titan.zip
+
+ENV TITAN_HOME /opt/titan-0.5.0-hadoop2
+WORKDIR $TITAN_HOME
+
+VOLUME ["/conf","/data"]
+ADD start-gremlin.sh /opt/start-gremlin.sh
+
+CMD ["/bin/bash", "-e", "/opt/start-gremlin.sh"]
+
diff --git a/titan-gremlin/README.md b/titan-gremlin/README.md
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+Runs the Gremlin console from the Titan Graph Database "all" distribution.
+
+To start the Gremlin console with the default configuration files available:
+
+    docker run -it itzg/titan-gremlin
+
+In order to adjust or further define property files to use within Gremlin,
+attach a host directory to the container's `/conf` such as
+
+    docker run -it -v $(pwd)/conf:/conf itzg/titan-gremlin
+
+After running once your host directory will be populated with the distribution-default
+configuration files. Modify those or add to them and they will available during
+the next use of gremlin.
diff --git a/titan-gremlin/start-gremlin.sh b/titan-gremlin/start-gremlin.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ $(ls /conf|wc -l) = 0 ]; then
+  cp -r $TITAN_HOME/conf/* /conf
+fi
+
+$TITAN_HOME/bin/gremlin.sh