The pre-built Docker image for the **trains-server** is the quickest way to get started with your own **TRAINS** server.
You can also build the entire **trains-server** architecture using the code available in the [trains-server](https://github.com/allegroai/trains-server) repository.
**Note**: We tested this pre-built Docker image with Linux, only. For Windows users, we recommend installing the pre-built image on a Linux virtual machine.
## Prerequisites
* You must be logged in as a user with sudo privileges
* Use `bash` for all command-line instructions in this installation
## Setup Docker
### Step 1: Install Docker CE
You must first install Docker. For instructions about installing Docker, see [Supported platforms](https://docs.docker.com/install//#support) in the Docker documentation.
For example, to [install in Ubuntu](https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/) / Mint (x86_64/amd64):
Elastic requires that the `vm.max_map_count` kernel setting, which is the maximum number of memory map areas a process can use, is set to at least 262144.
For CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16.04, Mint 18.3, Ubuntu 18.04 and Mint 19.x, we tested the following commands to set `vm.max_map_count`:
For information about setting this parameter on other systems, see the [elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docker.html#docker-cli-run-prod-mode) documentation.
You can manually launch the Docker containers using the following commands.
If your data directory is not `/opt/trains`, then in the five `docker run` commands below, you must replace all occurrences of `/opt/trains` with your data directory path.
1. Launch the **trains-elastic** Docker container.