Running Elasticsearch and Kibana as Docker Containers

Setting Up a Single-Node Elasticsearch Container for Development with docker run.

Elasticsearch and Kibana as Containers

To quickly set up Elasticsearch in a single-node development mode, you can run it as a container using the following command, with the option to easily integrate Kibana for data visualization.

# 1 Create network

docker network create elastic-net

#2 Set the environment variables

export ELASTIC_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -base64 16)
export KIBANA_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -base64 16)
export ELASTIC_VERSION=8.15.0

#4 Run Elasticsearch

docker run -p 9200:9200 -d --name elasticsearch --network elastic-net \
  -e ELASTIC_PASSWORD=$ELASTIC_PASSWORD \
  -e "discovery.type=single-node" \
  -e "xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=false" \
  -e "xpack.license.self_generated.type=trial" \
  docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:$ELASTIC_VERSION

# Check logs for "current.health":"GREEN"
docker logs elasticsearch | grep '"current.health":"GREEN"'

#5 Verify Elasticsearch Health API

curl -u elastic:$ELASTIC_PASSWORD \
http://127.0.0.1:9200/_cluster/health\?wait_for_status\=yellow\&pretty

#6 Set the kibana_system password in the Elasticsearch container

curl -u elastic:$ELASTIC_PASSWORD \
  -X POST \
  http://localhost:9200/_security/user/kibana_system/_password \
  -d '{"password":"'"$KIBANA_PASSWORD"'"}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

#7 Run Kibana

docker run -p 5601:5601 -d --name kibana --network elastic-net \
  -e ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://elasticsearch:9200 \
  -e ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=http://elasticsearch:9200 \
  -e ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=kibana_system \
  -e ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=$KIBANA_PASSWORD \
  -e "xpack.security.enabled=false" \
  -e "xpack.license.self_generated.type=trial" \
  docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:$ELASTIC_VERSION

#8 Copy $ELASTIC_PASSWORD Clipboard

# macOs
echo $ELASTIC_PASSWORD | pbcopy

# Windows using gitbash 
echo $ELASTIC_PASSWORD | clip

#linux
echo $ELASTIC_PASSWORD | xclip -selection clipboard

#9 Open the Kibana on the browser

http://localhost:5601

user: elastic
password: Paste from Clipboard copied in 8th step

To check the logs of the container

docker ps -a

docker logs elasticsearch

For more hacks on docker basic commands check with the following story

Hacks for Docker

All my elastic stack stories are here

GitHub - ContainerTalks/elastic-stack: Docker configuration for Elasticsearch

Reference

Install Elasticsearch with Docker

Elasticsearch 5.x — Bootstrap checks failing