Simple Elasticsearch setup with docker-compose

The following docker-compose.yml is a simple starting point for using ElasticSearch within a docker-based setup:

services:
    elasticsearch1:
        image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.13.4
        container_name: elasticsearch1
        environment:
            - cluster.name=docker-cluster
            - node.name=elasticsearch1
            - cluster.initial_master_nodes=elasticsearch1
            - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
            - http.cors.allow-origin=http://localhost:1358,http://127.0.0.1:1358
            - http.cors.enabled=true
            - http.cors.allow-headers=X-Requested-With,X-Auth-Token,Content-Type,Content-Length,Authorization
            - http.cors.allow-credentials=true
            - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
        ulimits:
            memlock:
                soft: -1
                hard: -1
        volumes:
            - ./esdata1:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
        ports:
            - 9200:9200
    dejavu:
        image: appbaseio/dejavu
        container_name: dejavu
        ports:
            - 1358:1358

Now create the esdata1 directory with the correct permissions:

sudo mkdir esdata1
sudo chown -R 1000:1000 esdata1

We also need to configure the vm.max_map_count sysctl parameter:

echo -e "\nvm.max_map_count=524288\n" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=524288

I recommend to place it in /opt/elasticsearch, but you can place wherever you like.

If you want to autostart it on boot, see Create a systemd service for your docker-compose project in 10 seconds or just use this snippet from said post:

curl -fsSL https://techoverflow.net/scripts/create-docker-compose-service.sh | sudo bash /dev/stdin

This will create a systemd service named elasticsearch (if your directory is named elasticsearch like /opt/elasticsearch) and enable and start it immediately. Hence you can restart using

sudo systemctl restart elasticsearch

and view the logs using

sudo journalctl -xfu elasticsearch

For more complex setup involving more than one node, see our previous post on ElasticSearch docker-compose.yml and systemd service generator