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This Docker image provides an easily configurable Elasticsearch node. Via port mappings, it is easy to create an arbitrarily sized cluster of nodes. As long as the versions match, you can mix-and-match "real" Elasticsearch nodes with container-ized ones.
Basic Usage
To start an Elasticsearch data node that listens on the standard ports on your host's network interface:
docker run -d -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 itzg/elasticsearch
You'll then be able to connect to the Elasticsearch HTTP interface to confirm it's alive:
{
"status" : 200,
"name" : "Charon",
"version" : {
"number" : "1.3.5",
"build_hash" : "4a50e7df768fddd572f48830ae9c35e4ded86ac1",
"build_timestamp" : "2014-11-05T15:21:28Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "4.9"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
Where DOCKERHOST would be the actual hostname of your host running
Docker.
Basic multi-node cluster
Running a multi-node cluster (3-node in this example) is almost as easy:
docker run -d -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 itzg/elasticsearch
docker run -d -p 9201:9200 -p 9301:9300 itzg/elasticsearch
docker run -d -p 9202:9200 -p 9302:9300 itzg/elasticsearch
where the only difference was the host port binding of 9200:/9300:,
9201:/9301:, and 9202:/9302:. By default, Elasticsearch uses
Zen Discovery, so the three nodes find each other and form a cluster. You
can confirm that by checking the cluster health for the presence of
three nodes (number_of_nodes):
http://DOCKERHOST:9200/_cluster/health?pretty
{
"cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
"status" : "green",
"timed_out" : false,
"number_of_nodes" : 3,
"number_of_data_nodes" : 3,
"active_primary_shards" : 0,
"active_shards" : 0,
"relocating_shards" : 0,
"initializing_shards" : 0,
"unassigned_shards" : 0
}
Configuration
The following configuration options are specified using docker run
environment variables (-e) like
docker run ... -e NAME=VALUE ... itzg/elasticsearch
Cluster Name
If joining a pre-existing cluster, then you may need to specify a cluster name different than the default "elasticsearch":
-e CLUSTER=dockers
Zen Unicast Hosts
When joining a multi-physical-host cluster, multicast may not be supported
on the physical network. In that case, your node can reference specific one or more hosts in
the cluster via the
Zen Unicast Hosts capability as a comma-separated list of HOST:PORT pairs:
-e UNICAST_HOSTS=HOST:PORT[,HOST:PORT]
such as
-e UNICAST_HOSTS=192.168.0.100:9300
Plugins
You can install one or more plugins before startup by passing a comma-separated list of plugins.
-e PLUGINS=ID[,ID]
In this example, it will install the Marvel plugin
-e PLUGINS=elasticsearch/marvel/latest
Many more plugins are available here.
Publish As
Since the container gives the Elasticsearch software an isolated perspective of its networking, it will most likely advertise its published address with a container-internal IP address. This can be overridden with a physical networking name and port using:
-e PUBLISH_AS=DOCKERHOST:9301
Author Note: I have yet to hit a case where this was actually necessary. Other than the cosmetic weirdness in the logs, Elasticsearch seems to be quite tolerant.
Node Name
Rather than use the randomly assigned node name, you can indicate a specific one using:
-e NODE_NAME=Docker