Unable to start Docker container according to documentation

[ajung@vmd16513 ~]$ docker run  crate
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
2019-03-07 16:56:38,942 main ERROR ThresholdFilter contains an invalid element or attribute "onMismatch"
2019-03-07 16:56:38,981 main ERROR ThresholdFilter contains an invalid element or attribute "onMismatch"
[2019-03-07T16:56:39,001][WARN ][o.e.c.l.LogConfigurator  ] [unknown] Some logging configurations have %marker but don't have %node_name. We will automatically add %node_name to the pattern to ease the migration for users who customize log4j2.properties but will stop this behavior in 7.0. You should manually replace `%node_name` with `[%node_name]%marker ` in these locations:
  /crate/config/log4j2.properties
2019-03-07 16:56:39,722 main ERROR ThresholdFilter contains an invalid element or attribute "onMismatch"
2019-03-07 16:56:39,729 main ERROR ThresholdFilter contains an invalid element or attribute "onMismatch"
[2019-03-07T16:56:39,736][WARN ][o.e.c.l.LogConfigurator  ] [Petzeck] Some logging configurations have %marker but don't have %node_name. We will automatically add %node_name to the pattern to ease the migration for users who customize log4j2.properties but will stop this behavior in 7.0. You should manually replace `%node_name` with `[%node_name]%marker ` in these locations:
  /crate/config/log4j2.properties
[2019-03-07T16:56:40,079][INFO ][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment    ] [Petzeck] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/data (/dev/sda2)]], net usable_space [487.1gb], net total_space [599.2gb], types [xfs]
[2019-03-07T16:56:40,080][INFO ][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment    ] [Petzeck] heap size [494.9mb], compressed ordinary object pointers [true]
[2019-03-07T16:56:40,081][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [Petzeck] node name [Petzeck], node ID [zeda_N-4RxuL6JDJGYCobA]
[2019-03-07T16:56:40,109][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [Petzeck] version[3.2.4], pid[1], build[1be62d9/2019-02-25T12:21:06Z], OS[Linux/4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64/amd64], JVM[Oracle Corporation/OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM/11.0.1/11.0.1+13]
[2019-03-07T16:56:40,110][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [Petzeck] JVM arguments [-Xms512M, -Xmx512M, -Djava.awt.headless=true, -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC, -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75, -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly, -Xlog:gc*,gc+age=trace,safepoint:file=/data/log/gc.log:utctime,pid,tags:filecount=16,filesize=64m, -XX:+DisableExplicitGC, -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, -Djna.nosys=true, -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false, -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true, -Dlog4j.skipJansi=true, -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true, -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true, -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0, -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, -XX:HeapDumpPath=/data/data, -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions, -Des.cgroups.hierarchy.override=/]
[2019-03-07T16:56:40,609][INFO ][i.c.plugin               ] [Petzeck] plugins loaded: [hyperLogLog, jmx-monitoring, lang-js]
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,885][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] no modules loaded
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,887][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [crate-azure-discovery]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,887][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [es-repository-hdfs]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,887][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [io.crate.plugin.BlobPlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,887][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [io.crate.plugin.CrateCorePlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,888][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [io.crate.plugin.HttpTransportPlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,888][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [io.crate.plugin.LicensePlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,888][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [io.crate.plugin.PluginLoaderPlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,888][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [io.crate.plugin.SrvPlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,888][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [io.crate.udc.plugin.UDCPlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,888][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [org.elasticsearch.analysis.common.CommonAnalysisPlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,888][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [org.elasticsearch.discovery.ec2.Ec2DiscoveryPlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,888][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [org.elasticsearch.plugin.repository.url.URLRepositoryPlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,889][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [org.elasticsearch.repositories.s3.S3RepositoryPlugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:41,889][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService     ] [Petzeck] loaded plugin [org.elasticsearch.transport.Netty4Plugin]
[2019-03-07T16:56:43,681][INFO ][o.e.d.DiscoveryModule    ] [Petzeck] using discovery type [zen] and host providers [settings]
[2019-03-07T16:56:45,206][INFO ][i.c.p.ssl                ] [Petzeck] HTTP SSL support is disabled.
[2019-03-07T16:56:46,197][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [Petzeck] initialized
[2019-03-07T16:56:46,201][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [Petzeck] starting ...
[2019-03-07T16:56:46,420][INFO ][psql                     ] [Petzeck] PSQL SSL support is disabled.
[2019-03-07T16:56:46,842][INFO ][psql                     ] [Petzeck] publish_address {172.17.0.8:5432}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:5432}, {172.17.0.8:5432}
[2019-03-07T16:56:46,927][INFO ][i.c.p.h.CrateNettyHttpServerTransport] [Petzeck] publish_address {172.17.0.8:4200}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:4200}, {172.17.0.8:4200}
[2019-03-07T16:56:46,996][INFO ][o.e.t.TransportService   ] [Petzeck] publish_address {172.17.0.8:4300}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:4300}, {172.17.0.8:4300}
[2019-03-07T16:56:47,065][INFO ][o.e.b.BootstrapChecks    ] [Petzeck] bound or publishing to a non-loopback address, enforcing bootstrap checks
ERROR: [1] bootstrap checks failed
[1]: max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144]
[2019-03-07T16:56:47,097][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [Petzeck] stopping ...
[2019-03-07T16:56:47,296][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [Petzeck] stopped
[2019-03-07T16:56:47,296][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [Petzeck] closing ...
[2019-03-07T16:56:47,316][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [Petzeck] closed

Specifying a port mapping using -p does not make a difference.

[zopyx]

The documentation is in general correct.

Perhaps add sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144 explicitly to the documentation and mention that it applies also to the Docker host. Perhaps I was under the impression that this configuration applies to settings of the Docker image itself.

[brunowego]

Thanks @zopyx, after run the below code, it solves the issue on my VM:

docker-machine ssh $DOCKER_MACHINE_NAME sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144