Setting Up Elasticsearch and Kibana with Docker

This article was originally published on bmf-tech.com.

Overview

A brief summary of Elasticsearch and setting up the environment with Docker.

What is Elasticsearch

• A distributed RESTful search/analytics engine
  • Capable of not only full-text search but also analytics
• Near real-time search platform
• Cluster
  • A collection of one or more nodes (servers) that collectively hold your entire data
  • Provides integrated indexing and search capabilities across all nodes
• Node
  • A single server within a cluster that stores data

Setting Up the Environment with Docker

Set up an environment where Elasticsearch and Kibana can be used.

docker-compose.yml

elasticsearch:
  image: elasticsearch:5
  ports:
    - 9200:9200
    - 9300:9300
  volumes:
    - ./elasticsearch/data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/
kibana:
  image: kibana:5
  ports:
    - 5601:5601
  links:
    - elasticsearch
  environment:
    - ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://127.0.0.1:9200

References

• Elasticsearch
• Running Elasticsearch and Kibana with Docker