# Deploying Notary Server with Compose The easiest way to deploy Notary Server is by using Docker Compose. To follow the procedure on this page, you must have already [installed Docker Compose](/compose/install.md). 1. Clone the Notary repository git clone git@github.com:docker/notary.git 2. Build and start Notary Server with the sample certificates. docker-compose up -d For more detailed documentation about how to deploy Notary Server see https://github.com/docker/notary. 3. Make sure that your Docker or Notary client trusts Notary Server's certificate before you try to interact with the Notary server. See the instructions for [Docker](../../reference/commandline/cli.md#notary) or for [Notary](https://github.com/docker/notary#using-notary) depending on which one you are using. ## If you want to use Notary in production Please check back here for instructions after Notary Server has an official stable release. To get a head start on deploying Notary in production see https://github.com/docker/notary.