# Elastic Cloud Enterprise Install - Steps I followed **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\ **Created:** [July 6, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-install-steps-i-followed/138810 "2018-07-06T01:42:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wayne\_Taylor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wayne_taylor/32/45984_2.png) [@Wayne\_Taylor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wayne_Taylor)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-install-steps-i-followed/138810/1 "2018-07-06T01:42:29Z")
Hi All, I tried to follow some steps as documented here: [https://www.elastic.co/downloads/enterprise](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/enterprise) and noticed a few issues. So documented my steps here. Hope this helps others This was executed on an EC2 with Canonical, Ubuntu, 16.04 LTS **Install Docker IO** `sudo apt install docker.io -y` **Add a user** `sudo adduser elastic` **Add user to docker group** `sudo usermod -aG docker elastic` **Create mnt point for data** `sudo mkdir -p /mnt/data` **Chown the mnt point for Elastic user:** `sudo chown -R elastic:elastic /mnt/data` **Set Max Map Count - Install will fail without it:** `sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144` **Run the install:** `bash <(curl -fsSL https://download.elastic.co/cloud/elastic-cloud-enterprise.sh) install` ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-install-steps-i-followed/138810/2 "2018-07-07T07:36:11Z")
> [@Wayne\_Taylor](#): > > and noticed a few issues Can you elaborate on these issues, is it just the map count you had problems with? ---
**Author:** ![Wayne\_Taylor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wayne_taylor/32/45984_2.png) [@Wayne\_Taylor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wayne_Taylor)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-install-steps-i-followed/138810/3 "2018-07-07T11:01:15Z")
Hi Mark, The one page installation instructions misses the following 1. Creation of a user that isn't in wheel group for example 2. Creation of the mnt point folder and ensuring the user has appropriate permissions 3. Ensuring new user is part of docker group. ---
**Author:** ![tahaderouiche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tahaderouiche](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tahaderouiche)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-install-steps-i-followed/138810/4 "2018-07-08T10:40:23Z")
Hi Wayne, Instructions #1 and #3 are in the page of [prerequisites](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-enterprise/current/ece-prereqs.html#ece-prereqs-users) and #2 is in [prepare your environment](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-enterprise/current/ece-configure-hosts.html#ece-configure-hosts-xenial). As there are a lots of prerequisites and steps, these were broken in multiple pages. Let me know if that answers your concerns? ---
**Author:** ![Wayne\_Taylor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wayne_taylor/32/45984_2.png) [@Wayne\_Taylor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wayne_Taylor)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-install-steps-i-followed/138810/5 "2018-07-08T12:47:38Z")
Hi @tahaderouiche - they do. Now I feel silly and obviously missed the hyperlinks etc. After readings the docs anyway i see there is a pre-setup AMI and will use that going forward. ---
**Author:** ![tahaderouiche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tahaderouiche](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tahaderouiche)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-install-steps-i-followed/138810/6 "2018-07-08T13:07:30Z")
Happy to see that this is working for you. AWS AMI will make the getting started experience smoother. Just make sure your attached storage is [xfs formatted](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-enterprise/current/ece-configure-hosts.html#ece-xfs-setup-trusty) (in case it is not by default) . Taha ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-install-steps-i-followed/138810/7 "2018-07-22T13:07:31Z")
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