docker-elasticsearch-alpine

Alpine Linux based Elasticsearch Docker Image

Table of Contents

• docker-elasticsearch-alpine
  • Why?
  • Dependencies
  • Image Tags
  • Getting Started
  • Documentation
  • Known Issues ⚠️
  • Issues
  • Credits
  • License

Why?

Compare Image Sizes:

• official elasticsearch = 791.6 MB
• stevensrtw/elasticsearch = 416 MB

version is 518 MB smaller !

Dependencies

• alpine:latest

Image Tags

REPOSITORY                           TAG                 SIZE
stevensrtw/elasticsearch-7.17.18   latest                416MB

Getting Started

$ docker run -d --name elastic -p 9200:9200 stevensrtw/elasticsearch-7.17.18

Documentation

• To create an elasticsearch cluster
• To increase the HEAP_SIZE to 2GB
• To monitor the clusters metrics using dockerbeat
• To run in production

Known Issues ⚠️

I have noticed when running the new 5.0+ version on a linux host you need to increase the memory map areas with the following command

sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

Issues

Find a bug? Want more features? Find something missing in the documentation? Let me know! Please don't hesitate to file an issue

Credits

Heavily (if not entirely) influenced by https://github.com/docker-library/elasticsearch
Production docs from https://stefanprodan.com/2016/elasticsearch-cluster-with-docker/

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2016-2022 stevensrtw