devx/docker-elasticsearch-alpine

Alpine Linux based Elasticsearch Docker Image

docker-elasticsearch-alpine


Alpine Linux based Elasticsearch Docker Image

Table of Contents

• Dependencies
• Image Tags
• Getting Started
• Documentation
  • To create an elasticsearch cluster
  • To increase the HEAP_SIZE to 2GB
  • To monitor the clusters metrics using dockerbeat
  • To run in production
• Issues
• Credits
• CHANGELOG
• Contributing
• License

Dependencies

• gliderlabs/alpine:3.4

Image Tags

REPOSITORY               TAG                 SIZE
blacktop/elasticsearch   latest              149.3 MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   5.1                 149.3 MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   5.0                 148.4 MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   geoip               181.8 MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   x-pack              199.5 MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   2.4                 138.8 MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   kopf                144.7 MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   2.3                 139.1 MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   1.7                 142.7 MB

NOTE:

• tag x-pack is the same as tag latest, but includes the x-pack, the ingest-geoip and the ingest-user-agent plugin.
• tag geoip is the same as tag latest, but includes the ingest-geoip and the ingest-user-agent plugin.
• tag kopf is the same as tag 2.4, but includes the kopf plugin.

Getting Started

$ docker run -d --name elastic -p 9200:9200 blacktop/elasticsearch

Documentation

• To create an elasticsearch cluster
• To increase the HEAP_SIZE to 2GB
• To monitor the clusters metrics using dockerbeat
• To run in production

Known Issues ⚠️

I have noticed when running the new 5.0 version on a linux host you need to increase the memory map areas with the following command

sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

Issues

Find a bug? Want more features? Find something missing in the documentation? Let me know! Please don't hesitate to file an issue

Credits

Heavily (if not entirely) influenced by https://github.com/docker-library/elasticsearch
Production docs from https://stefanprodan.com/2016/elasticsearch-cluster-with-docker/

CHANGELOG

See CHANGELOG.md

Contributing

See all contributors on GitHub.

Please update the CHANGELOG.md and submit a Pull Request on GitHub.

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2016-2017 blacktop