---
title: Development process for Fleet UI
description: See the Kibana docs for how to set up your dev environment, run Elasticsearch, and start Kibana. One common development workflow is: Clone Kibana repo,...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/extend/integrations/developer-workflow-fleet-UI
products:
  - Elastic integrations
---

# Development process for Fleet UI
See the Kibana docs for [how to set up your dev environment](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#setting-up-your-development-environment), [run Elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#running-elasticsearch), and [start Kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#running-kibana).
One common development workflow is:
1. Clone Kibana repo
   ```bash
   git clone https://github.com/[YOUR_USERNAME]/kibana.git kibana
   cd kibana
   ```
2. Install Dependencies
   ```bash
   nvm use
   npm install -g yarn
   ```
3. Bootstrap Kibana
   ```bash
   yarn kbn bootstrap
   ```
4. Start Elasticsearch in one shell
   ```bash
   yarn es snapshot -E xpack.security.authc.api_key.enabled=true
   ```
5. Start Kibana in another shell
   ```bash
   yarn start --xpack.fleet.enabled=true --no-base-path
   ```
6. Download fleet-server package from [[https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/#elastic-agent](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/#elastic-agent)](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/#elastic-agent)
7. Untar fleet server tarball and `cd` to the directory
8. Install fleet-server (See also the alternative solution)
   ```bash
   sudo ./elastic-agent install  -f \
   --fleet-server-es=http://elastic:changeme@localhost:9200 \
   --fleet-server-policy=<default policy id>
   ```
   The `default policy id` can be retrieved by fleet ui instructions in Kibana before any fleet server is installed. Fleet Server will start in `+https://users_machine_ip:8220+`
9. Update Fleet settings on the top right corner of Fleet UI to set the correct Fleet Server hosts (ip from previous step).
10. After that user can enroll as many agents as they want
11. Any code update in Kibana fleet plugin should be picked up automatically and either cause the server to restart, or be served to the browser on the next page refresh.


## Alternative solution for fleet server

Instead of download fleet server package and running it as a local process you can run Fleet Server Locally in a Container.
It can be useful to run Fleet Server in a container on your local machine in order to free up your actual "bare metal" machine to run Elastic Agent for testing purposes. Otherwise, you’ll only be able to a single instance of Elastic Agent dedicated to Fleet Server on your local machine, and this can make testing integrations and policies difficult.
*The following is adapted from the Fleet Server [README](https://github.com/elastic/fleet-server#running-elastic-agent-with-fleet-server-in-container)*
1. Add the following configuration to your `config/kibana.yml`
   ```yaml
   server.host: 0.0.0.0
   ```
2. Append the following option to the command you use to start Elasticsearch
   ```yaml
   -E http.host=0.0.0.0
   ```
   This command should look something like this:
   ```bash
   yarn es snapshot --license trial -E xpack.security.authc.api_key.enabled=true -E path.data=/tmp/es-data -E http.host=0.0.0.0
   ```
3. Run the Fleet Server Docker container. Make sure you include a `BASE-PATH` value if your local Kibana instance is using one. `YOUR-IP` should correspond to the IP address used by your Docker network to represent the host. For Windows and Mac machines, this should be `192.168.65.2`. If you’re not sure what this IP should be, run the following to look it up:
   ```bash
   docker run -it --rm alpine nslookup host.docker.internal
   ```
   To run the Fleet Server Docker container:
   ```bash
   docker run -e KIBANA_HOST=http://{YOUR-IP}:5601/{BASE-PATH} -e KIBANA_USERNAME=elastic -e KIBANA_PASSWORD=changeme -e ELASTICSEARCH_HOST=http://{YOUR-IP}:9200 -e ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=elastic -e ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=changeme -e KIBANA_FLEET_SETUP=1 -e FLEET_SERVER_ENABLE=1 -e FLEET_SERVER_INSECURE_HTTP=1 -p 8220:8220 docker.elastic.co/elastic-agent/elastic-agent:{VERSION}
   ```
   Ensure you provide the `-p 8220:8220` port mapping to map the Fleet Server container’s port `8220` to your local machine’s port `8220` in order for Fleet to communicate with Fleet Server.
   For the latest version, use `8.0.0-SNAPSHOT`. Otherwise, you can explore the available versions at [[https://www.docker.elastic.co/r/beats/elastic-agent](https://www.docker.elastic.co/r/beats/elastic-agent)](https://www.docker.elastic.co/r/beats/elastic-agent).
   Once the Fleet Server container is running, you should be able to treat it as if it were a local process running on `+http://localhost:8220+` when configuring Fleet via the UI. You can then run `elastic-agent` on your local machine directly for testing purposes.