Name: Installing Elasticsearch and Kibana with Docker compose
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Author: birolaydin

Installing Elasticsearch and Kibana with Docker compose

Birol AYDIN - May 9 '23 -

- Dev Community

Briefly installing Elasticsearch and Kibana with Docker compose.
You can work with Elasticsearch and Kibana running in docker environment by following the steps below.

//Windows powershell
mkdir Elasticsearch8.7.1

cd Elasticsearch8.7.1

New-Item -Path "docker-compose.yml"

code .

*NOTE: Before running docker-compose, make sure Docker is installed and running on your computer :)
*

// docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
  elasticsearch:
    container_name: elasticsearch
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.7.1
    # 8.x
    environment: ['CLI_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms2g -Xmx2g','bootstrap.memory_lock=true','discovery.type=single-node','xpack.security.enabled=false', 'xpack.security.enrollment.enabled=false']
    ports:
      - 9200:9200
    networks:
      - elastic
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
      nofile:
        soft: 65536
        hard: 65536
    deploy:    
      resources:
          limits:
            cpus: '2.0'
          reservations:
            cpus: '1.0'

  kibana:
    image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:8.7.1
    container_name: kibana
    environment:
      XPACK_ENCRYPTEDSAVEDOBJECTS_ENCRYPTIONKEY: d1a66dfd-c4d3-4a0a-8290-2abcb83ab3aa
    ports:
      - 5601:5601
    networks:
      - elastic
    deploy:    
      resources:
          limits:
            cpus: '2.0'
          reservations:
            cpus: '1.0'

networks:
  elastic:

In the directory where docker-compose is located

docker-compose  up

You can see the containers working from Docker Desktop application. Click on the links Elasticsearch and kibana to see that both are ready to use.