How to config Single node for Single Cluster (Standalone Cluster) ElasticSearch

Question

I installed elastic search in my local machine, I want to configure it as the only one single node in the cluster(Standalone Server). it means whenever I create a new index, it

Answer 1

In elasticsearch.yml

# Note, that for development on a local machine, with small indices, it usually
# makes sense to "disable" the distributed features:
#
index.number_of_shards: 1
index.number_of_replicas: 0

Use the same configuration in your code.

Also to isolate the node use node.local: true or discovery.zen.ping.multicast: false