Problem:
You want to run ElasticSearch using docker, but the container immediately stops again using this error message
elasticsearch exited with code 78
or
elasticsearch2 exited with code 78
Solution:
If you look through the entire log message, you’ll find lines like
elasticsearch | [1]: max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144]
Therefore we need to increase the vm.max_map_count limit:
sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=524288
Now we need to edit /etc/sysctl.conf so the setting will also be in effect after a reboot.
Look for any vm.max_map_count line in /etc/sysctl.conf. If you find one, set its value to 524288. If there is no such line present, add the line
vm.max_map_count=524288
to the end of /etc/sysctl.conf
Original source: GitHub