# Running DSS as a Docker container[¶](https://doc.dataiku.com/dss/latest/installation/other/docker.html#running-dss-as-a-docker-container "Permalink to this headline")

Dataiku provides a Docker image for DSS.

Warning

This image is mainly offered as a base image to build upon. If you use this image directly, it will lack a lot of the configuration of a typical DSS installation. For instance:

* Most databases won’t be directly usable because the drivers are not included

* Hadoop connectivity won’t work from scratch because the client libraries are not included

Warning

Familiarity with building and running Docker images is recommended to use DSS inside a Docker container.

Instead, you can build your own image on top of the DSS one, using `FROM dataiku/dss` and adding anything required to fit your requirements.

Warning

Running DSS itself as a container (either by running Docker directly, or through Kubernetes) is generally speaking incompatible with the ability to leverage containers as a processing engine. See Elastic AI computation

You can mount an existing data directory as `/home/dataiku/dss`, see the Docker Hub page for DSS.
