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title: Installing
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# Installing

## Using pre-compiled binaries

We provide precompiled binaries for most official Prometheus components.
Check out the [download section](/download) for a list of all available
versions.

## From source

For building Prometheus components from source, see the `Makefile` targets in
the respective repository.

NOTE: **Note:** The documentation on this website refers to the latest stable
release (excluding pre-releases). The branch
[next-release](https://github.com/prometheus/docs/compare/next-release) refers
to unreleased changes that are in master branches of source repos.

## Using Docker

All Prometheus services are available as Docker images under the
[prom](https://hub.docker.com/u/prom/) organization.

Running Prometheus on Docker is as simple as `docker run -p 9090:9090
prom/prometheus`. This starts Prometheus with a sample configuration and
exposes it on port 9090.

The Prometheus image uses a volume to store the actual metrics. For
production deployments it is highly recommended to use the
[Data Volume Container](https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/containers/dockervolumes/#creating-and-mounting-a-data-volume-container)
pattern to ease managing the data on Prometheus upgrades.

To provide your own configuration, there are several options. Here are
two examples.

### Volumes & bind-mount

Bind-mount your prometheus.yml from the host by running:

```
docker run -p 9090:9090 -v /tmp/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
       prom/prometheus
```

Or use an additional volume for the config:

```
docker run -p 9090:9090 -v /prometheus-data \
       prom/prometheus -config.file=/prometheus-data/prometheus.yml
```

### Custom image

To avoid managing a file on the host and bind-mount it, the
configuration can be baked into the image. This works well if the
configuration itself is rather static and the same across all
environments.

For this, create a new directory with a Prometheus configuration and a
Dockerfile like this:

```
FROM prom/prometheus
ADD prometheus.yml /etc/prometheus/
```

Now build and run it:

```
docker build -t my-prometheus .
docker run -p 9090:9090 my-prometheus
```

A more advanced option is to render the config dynamically on start
with some tooling or even have a daemon update it periodically.

## Using configuration management systems

If you prefer using configuration management systems you might be interested in
the following third-party contributions:

Ansible:

* [griggheo/ansible-prometheus](https://github.com/griggheo/ansible-prometheus)
* [William-Yeh/ansible-prometheus](https://github.com/William-Yeh/ansible-prometheus)

Chef:

* [rayrod2030/chef-prometheus](https://github.com/rayrod2030/chef-prometheus)

SaltStack:

* [bechtoldt/saltstack-prometheus-formula](https://github.com/bechtoldt/saltstack-prometheus-formula)
