docker-compose.yml for elasticsearch 7.0.1 and kibana 7.0.1

Question

I am using Docker Desktop with linux containers on Windows 10 and would like to launch the latest versions of the elasticsearch and kibana containers over a docker compose file.

Answer 1

Making a few changes worked for me -

• Add cluster.initial_master_nodes to the elasticsearch service in compose -

  environment:
    - cluster.initial_master_nodes=elasticsearch
  

• vm.max_map_count on the linux box kernel setting needs to be set to at least 262144 -

  $ sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144
  

For development mode, you can use below settings as well -

    environment:
      - discovery.type=single-node

Working compose file for me -

version: '2.2'
services:
  es01:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.0.1
    container_name: es01
    environment:
      - cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
    ports:
      - 9200

For production mode, you must consider having multiple ES nodes/containers as suggested in the official documentation

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.0/docker.html#docker-cli-run-prod-mode