Elasticsearch docker container

Elasticsearch is a search server based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and is released as open source under the terms of the Apache License. Elasticsearch is the second most popular enterprise search engine.

When started Elasticsearch container will listen on ports 9200 and 9300.

sudo docker run -it -d dperson/elasticsearch

sudo docker run -it --rm dperson/elasticsearch -h

Usage: elasticsearch.sh [-opt] [command]
Options (fields in '[]' are optional, '<>' are required):
    -h          This help
    -t ""       Configure timezone
                possible arg: "[timezone]" - zoneinfo timezone for container

The 'command' (if provided and valid) will be run instead of elasticsearch

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

• TZ - As above, configure the zoneinfo timezone, IE EST5EDT
• USERID - Set the UID for the app user
• GROUPID - Set the GID for the app user

Any of the commands can be run at creation with docker run or later with docker exec -it elasticsearch elasticsearch.sh (as of version 1.3 of docker).

sudo docker run -it -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -d dperson/elasticsearch \
            -t EST5EDT

OR using environment variables

sudo docker run -it -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e TZ=EST5EDT -d \
            dperson/elasticsearch

Will get you the same settings as

sudo docker run -it --name es -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -d \
            dperson/elasticsearch
sudo docker exec -it es elasticsearch.sh -t EST5EDT ls -AlF /etc/localtime
sudo docker restart es

Example configs

If you wish to adapt the default configuration, use something like the following to copy it from a running container:

sudo docker cp es:/opt/elasticsearch/config /some/path

You can use the modified configuration with:

sudo docker run -it --name es -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 \
            -v /some/path:/opt/elasticsearch/config:ro \
            -d dperson/elasticsearch

If you have any problems with or questions about this image, please contact me through a GitHub issue.