Compose container cannot start due to restricted memory lock limits

Error recorded 1 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys on Docker Compose. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.

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Why it happens

The Docker daemon created the volumes, network, and containers, but the nested runtime could not start Elasticsearch. The hardened Compose settings attempted to apply a memory-lock limit (rlimit type 8), which the host or DinD runtime does not permit.

What the log looks like

Deploy log
Starting application (docker compose up -d)Container archivist-es StartingError response from daemon: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: error during container init: error setting rlimits for ready process: error setting rlimit type 8: operation not permitted

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