Commands to run the containers:

sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144
docker-compose up

The first line may not be necessary, but in my case the ES containers crash if I don't change this setting. It'll be reset to its previous value on system reboot, but you can also set it permanently in the /etc/sysctl.conf file.

More details e.g. here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/51448773/4744341,
docker-library/elasticsearch#111