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

This solve your problem:

PUT /_all/_settings
{"index.number_of_replicas":0}

Tested with ES version 5.