The following repository corresponds to Spantree's Elasticsearch workshop. It uses Docker and Docker Compose to launch number of containers for exploration of Elasticsearch. It also contains all the slides in our deck, courtesy of reveal.js.
If you're more of a visual and auditory learner, we've got you covered! We recorded a live version of this talk during our workshop at the StrangeLoop Conference in September 2014. Some of the artifacts have since been updated for later versions of Elasticsearch.
Cedric Hurst: Principal & Lead Software Engineer
Kevin Greene: Senior Software Engineer
Gary Turovsky: Senior Software Engineer
Jonathan Freeman: Senior Software Engineer
We ask that you walk through these steps before you stop by since you'll need to download stuff and we don't want to crush the hotel bandwidth. The project itself will likely evolve up until the time of the presentation, but the Docker stuff shouldn't change too much.
Install the following tools to bootstrap your environment
- Install Git
- If on Mac or Windows, install Boot2Docker
- Install Docker Compose
For some of the labs, we'll need a little bit more RAM than the 2GB normally provided, which we can do by providing the -m 4096 flag. We'll also want to create a local host entry for our boot2docker vm so we can access Elasticsearch and various other services from our host machine. If you're on Windows, the syntax may be slightly different and you may have to manually write out your /etc/hosts entry. If you know a better way, pull requests are very welcome.
boot2docker init -m 4096
boot2docker up
$(boot2docker shellinit)
echo "$(boot2docker ip) estalk.spantree.local esdemo.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hostsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Spantree/elasticsearch-talk.git
cd elasticsearch-talk
docker-compose upThat's it. That's all there is to it.
You should now be able to access elasticsearch on your machine from a web browser at http://estalk.spantree.local:
As mentioned, we may be altering the vagrant configuration up until the time of the presentation, so make sure you have the latest changes by doing the following from your host terminal:
git pull
docker pull spantree/elasticsearch-talk-es
docker pull spantree/elasticsearch-talk-www
docker pull spantree/logstash-star-wars-kid
docker compose up
Email info@spantree.net if you run into issues. We'd be happy to help.