Besides the official images which are provided for the most popular linux distributions there are also a variety of unofficial images provided by the community. We are tracking most of the community contributions (including new or updated images) in our newsletter:

Please note that ArangoDB will only work on 64bit.

To start the official Docker container you will have to decide on an authentication method. Otherwise the container won’t start.

Provide one of the arguments to Docker as an environment variable.

There are three options:

• ARANGO_NO_AUTH=1

Start ArangoDB with the given password for root

• ARANGO_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD=1

Let ArangoDB generate a random root password

To get going quickly:

For an in depth guide about Docker and ArangoDB please check the official documentation: https://hub.docker.com/r/arangodb/arangodb/ . Note that we are using the image here which is always the most current one. There is also the “official” one called whose documentation is here: