Installing Elastic Stack in a Single Click using Docker Compose

The Elastic team made a great work w/ packaging the various elastic stack compnents into Docker images.
Yet, this manual will help you boot the entire stack including Logstash and Kibana in a single click using Docker Compose.

1. Run the following command in your host machine 

sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

2. Install Docker Compose

In ubuntu for example use:

sudo apt-get -y install docker-compose

3. Create a docker-compose.yml according to the follow link:

Copy the docker-compose.yml to your machine

	version: '2'
	services:
	elasticsearch:
	image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:5.4.2
	environment:
	- cluster.name=docker-cluster
	- bootstrap.memory_lock=true
	- "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
	ulimits:
	memlock:
	soft: -1
	hard: -1
	mem_limit: 1g
	volumes:
	- esdata1:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
	ports:
	- 9200:9200
	networks:
	- esnet
	elasticsearch2:
	image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:5.4.2
	environment:
	- cluster.name=docker-cluster
	- bootstrap.memory_lock=true
	- "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
	- "discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts=elasticsearch1"
	ulimits:
	memlock:
	soft: -1
	hard: -1
	mem_limit: 1g
	volumes:
	- esdata2:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
	networks:
	- esnet
	kibana:
	image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:5.4.2
	ports:
	- 5601:5601
	networks:
	- esnet
	logstash:
	image: docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:5.4.2
	volumes:
	- /tmp/pipeline:/usr/share/logstash/pipeline/
	- /tmp/input:/tmp/input
	networks:
	- esnet
	volumes:
	esdata1:
	driver: local
	esdata2:
	driver: local
	networks:
	esnet:

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4. Start the cluster

sudo docker-compose up

5. Verify the cluster using the password changeme

curl -u elastic http://127.0.0.1:9200/_cat/health

Enter host password for user 'elastic':

1498046576 12:02:56 docker-cluster green 2 2 12 6 0 0 0 0 - 100.0%

6. And Kibana using 

http://127.0.0.1:5601

Bottom Line

Docker changes the DevOps world as we know it, and complex tasks that took hours, can be done in few clicks

	#!/bin/sh
	#Set virtual memory
	sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144
	#Get the docker-compose.yml
	wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mosheka/4122218b8a32f9213c48c1c999c214e8/raw/54591b6d692a3b3fefd13c77a1fcf5640e4e3ddc/docker-compose.yml
	#Start it
	sudo docker-compose up

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Keep Performing,

Moshe Kaplan