Graph environment

Using the preconfigured Aerospike Graph GitHub repository, we’ll quickly get up and running with a one-node Aerospike Graph Service (AGS) instance and a one-node Aerospike database cluster.

Set up the Graph environment

Clone the Aerospike Graph repository then navigate to the new directory.
Terminal window
```
git clone https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-graph.git
cd aerospike-graph
```
Start AGS in Docker using the following command:
Terminal window
```
docker compose up -d
```
Example response
Terminal window
✔ Network asgraph_net Created ✔ Container aerospike-db Healthy ✔ Container asgraph-zipkin Healthy ✔ Container aerospike-graph-service Started
The Docker Compose script pulls and starts all of the required AGS Docker images. At the root of the aerospike-graph directory, a file named docker-compose.yaml contains the configuration used to create and network the Docker containers.
Confirm Aerospike Graph is running:
Terminal window
```
docker ps
```
Example response
The output should show three running Docker processes, one each for:
- Aerospike Graph Service
- Zipkin (a query tracing service for graph queries)
- Aerospike Database
Terminal window
9d5b0cfab45f aerospike/aerospike-graph-service:latest "scripts/gremlin-ser…"... 6ca1415981fe openzipkin/zipkin "start-zipkin"... 248a05d9e903 aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise:7.1 "/usr/bin/as-tini-st…"...