ElasticSearch Dockerfile. Also published to public Docker Registry.

1. Install Docker

2. Download image from public Docker Registry:

docker pull dockerize/elasticsearch

or build an image from the Dockerfile:

docker build -t dockerize/elasticsearch github.com/dockerize/elasticsearch

docker run -d -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -v <data-dir>:/data dockerize/elasticsearch

1. Create a mountable data directory on the host.

2. Create ElasticSearch config file at /elasticsearch.yml.

path:
 logs: /data/log
 data: /data/data

1. Start a container by mounting data directory and specifying the custom configuration file:

docker run -d -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -v <data-dir>:/data dockerize/elasticsearch /elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -Des.config=/data/elasticsearch.yml

After few seconds, open [http:https://localhost:9200] to see the result.