/docker-elasticsearch

Dockerfile for a base Elasticsearch image to be extended by others (allow to install plug-ins, change configuration, etc.)

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docker-elasticsearch

Ready to use, lean and highly configurable Elasticsearch container image.

Docker Repository on Quay.io

Current software

  • OpenJDK JRE 8u151
  • Elasticsearch 6.0.1

Run

Attention

Ready to use node for cluster elasticsearch-default:

docker run --name elasticsearch \
	--detach \
	--privileged \
	--volume /path/to/data_folder:/data \
        quay.io/pires/docker-elasticsearch:6.0.1

Ready to use node for cluster myclustername:

docker run --name elasticsearch \
	--detach \
	--privileged \
	--volume /path/to/data_folder:/data \
	-e CLUSTER_NAME=myclustername \
        quay.io/pires/docker-elasticsearch:6.0.1

Ready to use node for cluster elasticsearch-default, with 8GB heap allocated to Elasticsearch:

docker run --name elasticsearch \
	--detach \
	--privileged \
	--volume /path/to/data_folder:/data \
	-e ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Xms8g -Xmx8g" \
        quay.io/pires/docker-elasticsearch:6.0.1

Ready to use node with plugins (x-pack and repository-gcs) pre installed. Already installed plugins are ignored:

docker run --name elasticsearch \
	--detach \
	--privileged \
	--volume /path/to/data_folder:/data \
	-e ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Xms8g -Xmx8g" \
	-e ES_PLUGINS_INSTALL="repository-gcs,x-pack" \
        quay.io/pires/docker-elasticsearch:6.0.1

Master-only node for cluster elasticsearch-default:

docker run --name elasticsearch \
	--detach \
	--privileged \
	--volume /path/to/data_folder:/data \
	-e NODE_DATA=false \
	-e HTTP_ENABLE=false \
        quay.io/pires/docker-elasticsearch:6.0.1

Data-only node for cluster elasticsearch-default:

docker run --name elasticsearch \
	--detach --volume /path/to/data_folder:/data \
	--privileged \
	-e NODE_MASTER=false \
	-e HTTP_ENABLE=false \
        quay.io/pires/docker-elasticsearch:6.0.1

Data-only node for cluster elasticsearch-default with shard allocation awareness:

docker run --name elasticsearch \
	--detach --volume /path/to/data_folder:/data \
        --volume /etc/hostname:/dockerhost \
	--privileged \
	-e NODE_MASTER=false \
	-e HTTP_ENABLE=false \
    -e SHARD_ALLOCATION_AWARENESS=dockerhostname \
    -e SHARD_ALLOCATION_AWARENESS_ATTR="/dockerhost" \
        quay.io/pires/docker-elasticsearch:6.0.1

Client-only node for cluster elasticsearch-default:

docker run --name elasticsearch \
	--detach \
	--privileged \
	--volume /path/to/data_folder:/data \
	-e NODE_MASTER=false \
	-e NODE_DATA=false \
        quay.io/pires/docker-elasticsearch:6.0.1

I also make available special images and instructions for AWS EC2 and Kubernetes.

Environment variables

This image can be configured by means of environment variables, that one can set on a Deployment.