IdealPanda97 Is your user id 1000? If not then this maybe the reason and chown -R 1000:1000 may help. Elasticsearch in the docker runs with user 1000. Another reason maybe some other elasticsearch process or docker running on your machine and holding the lock in the data folder. If there are any then please try stopping them. If neither of the above helps then there is an option of manually deleting .lock files from the elastic data folder. Of course the data should be backed up before this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28932178/elasticsearch-failed-to-obtain-node-lock-is-the-following-location-writable