---
title: Using Docker
description: Installing hyperglass with Docker
---

import { Button } from "nextra/components";
import { Callout } from "nextra-theme-docs";

## Docker

<Callout type="info">**Docker is the recommended method for running hyperglass.**</Callout>

### 1. Install Docker

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    <a target="_blank" href="https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/">
        Docker Engine Installation Guide
    </a>
</Button>

### 2. Download hyperglass

```shell copy
mkdir /etc/hyperglass
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/thatmattlove/hyperglass/tree/v2.0.0 --depth=1
```

### Optional: Quickstart

Do this if you just want to see the hyperglass page working with a fake device.

```shell copy
cp /opt/hyperglass/.samples/sample_devices.yaml /etc/hyperglass/devices.yaml
cd /opt/hyperglass
docker compose up
```

Navigate to http://localhost:8001

### 3. Create a `systemd` service

<Callout type="info">
    Before you create and start the hyperglass service, you may want to verify whether or not you
    intend to change any [environment variables](environment-variables.mdx) and change them first.
</Callout>

```shell copy
cp /opt/hyperglass/.samples/hyperglass-docker.service /etc/hyperglass/hyperglass.service
ln -s /etc/hyperglass/hyperglass.service /etc/systemd/system/hyperglass.service
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable hyperglass
systemctl start hyperglass
```