# Install elasticsearch in a running docker container
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-elasticsearch-in-a-running-docker-container/224743
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [March 23, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-elasticsearch-in-a-running-docker-container/224743 "2020-03-23T22:01:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Chandrak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chandrak)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-elasticsearch-in-a-running-docker-container/224743/1 "2020-03-23T22:01:58Z")
There is a lot of documentation on installing ELK using dockers e.g. [https://github.com/deviantony/docker-elk](https://github.com/deviantony/docker-elk)
However, I want to install ELK in a running docker container.
1. I followed the instructions here
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/targz.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/targz.html) to install elasticsearch in a running container
2. I got an error - [java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root]. I followed instructions here to solve this. [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34920801/how-to-run-elasticsearch-2-1-1-as-root-user-in-linux-machine](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34920801/how-to-run-elasticsearch-2-1-1-as-root-user-in-linux-machine).
3. Now, I am getting this error -
main ERROR Could not register mbeans java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("javax.management.MBeanTrustPermission" "register")
at java.base/java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:472)
How to resolve this?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-elasticsearch-in-a-running-docker-container/224743/2 "2020-03-23T23:59:43Z")
Is there a reason you cannot use the existing containers that have Elasticsearch already installed?
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### Author:  [@Chandrak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chandrak)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-elasticsearch-in-a-running-docker-container/224743/3 "2020-03-24T01:09:19Z")
I already have a container running with some other deep learning packages. I want to use elasticsearch for data pre-processing steps.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-elasticsearch-in-a-running-docker-container/224743/4 "2020-04-21T01:09:20Z")
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