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+---
+title: Local Install via Docker
+description: Instructions for using Vitess on your machine for testing purposes
+weight: 4
+featured: true
+aliases: ['/docs/tutorials/local-docker/']
+---
+
+This guide illustrates how to run a local testing Vitess setup via Docker. The Vitess environment is identical to the [local setup](../local/), but without having to install software on one's host other than Docker.
+
+## Check out the vitessio/vitess repository
+
+Clone the GitHub repository via:
+
+- SSH: `git clone git@github.com:vitessio/vitess.git`, or:
+- HTTP: `git clone https://github.com/vitessio/vitess.git`
+
+```shell
+cd vitess
+```
+
+## Build the docker image
+
+In your shell, execute:
+
+```shell
+make docker_local
+```
+
+This creates a docker image named `vitess/local` (aka `vitess/local:latest`)
+
+## Run the docker image
+
+Execute: 
+
+```shell
+./docker/local/run.sh
+```
+
+This will set up a MySQL replication topology, as well as `etcd`, `vtctld` and `vtgate` services. 
+
+- `vtgate` listens on [http://127.0.0.1:15001/debug/status](http://127.0.0.1:15001/debug/status) 
+- `vtctld` listens on [http://127.0.0.1:15000/debug/status](http://127.0.0.1:15000/debug/status) 
+- Control panel is available at [http://localhost:15000/app/](http://localhost:15000/app/)
+
+From within the docker shell, aliases are set up for your convenience. Try th efollowing `mysql` commands to connect to various tablets:
+
+- `mysql commerce`
+- `mysql commerce@master`
+- `mysql commerce@replica`
+- `mysql commerce@rdonly`
+
+You will find that Vitess runs a single keyspace, single shart cluster.
+
+
+## Summary
+
+In this example, we deployed a single unsharded keyspace named `commerce`. Unsharded keyspaces have a single shard named `0`. The following schema reflects a common ecommerce scenario that was created by the script:
+
+```sql
+create table product (
+  sku varbinary(128),
+  description varbinary(128),
+  price bigint,
+  primary key(sku)
+);
+create table customer (
+  customer_id bigint not null auto_increment,
+  email varbinary(128),
+  primary key(customer_id)
+);
+create table corder (
+  order_id bigint not null auto_increment,
+  customer_id bigint,
+  sku varbinary(128),
+  price bigint,
+  primary key(order_id)
+);
+```
+
+The schema has been simplified to include only those fields that are significant to the example:
+
+* The `product` table contains the product information for all of the products.
+* The `customer` table has a `customer_id` that has an `auto_increment`. A typical customer table would have a lot more columns, and sometimes additional detail tables.
+* The `corder` table (named so because `order` is an SQL reserved word) has an `order_id` auto-increment column. It also has foreign keys into `customer(customer_id)` and `product(sku)`.
+
+## Next Steps
+
+You can now proceed with [MoveTables](../../user-guides/move-tables).
+
+Exiting the docker shell terminates and destroys the vitess cluster.
+
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 This guide covers installing Vitess locally for testing purposes, from pre-compiled binaries. We will launch multiple copies of `mysqld`, so it is recommended to have greater than 4GB RAM, as well as 20GB of available disk space.
 
+A [docker setup](../local-docker/) is also available, which requires no dependencies on your local host.
+
 ## Install MySQL and etcd
 
 Vitess supports MySQL 5.6+ and MariaDB 10.0+. We recommend MySQL 5.7 if your installation method provides a choice: