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Elastic Search Setup ​

  • Tested with version 7.0 of ES
  • Tested with Ubuntu 16.04

Prerequsities ​

  • Java version 8 at least
sh
java -version

Install ​

Ubuntu ​

sh
wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install elasticsearch

Config ​

$JAVA_HOME variable ​

See the options with update-alternatives:

sh
sudo update-alternatives --config java

set the $JAVA_HOME to a path in the list minus the trailing /bin/java
Set it for example in the /etc/environment file:

sh
JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre"

Single node ​

network.host documentation

/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml:

sh
cluster.name: cluster-with-singlenode1
node.name: singlenode1
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch
#bootstrap.memory_lock: true
#network.host: localhost
#network.host: 172.31.1.13
network.host: _site_
http.port: 9200
cluster.initial_master_nodes: 1