How to set up Elasticsearch and Kibana using Docker

docker_elasticsearch_kibana.md

Requirements

• At least 6-8GB of RAM (of those 4GB will be used for a virtual machine)
• About 1GB of diskspace
• 0.5 hours of time (depends on your network speed)

Environments

• MacOSX 10.11.6
• Docker for Mac

Download & Install

• Docker for Mac

Configure Docker.app

• Start Docker.app and wait til it's ready
• Go to the menu icon and click preferences
• Increase the memory size to 4GB

Prepare for a Docker container

$ mkdir elastic
$ cd elastic
$ vi docker-compose.yml
kibana:
  image: kibana
  links:
    - elasticsearch:elasticsearch
  ports:
    - 5601:5601

elasticsearch:
  image: elasticsearch
  ports:
    - 9200:9200
    - 9300:9300

Install docker images and make containers

$ docker-compose up -d

Check the instances

$ docker ps

Kibana status check

• Visit http://localhost:5601/status/

Stop the containers

$ docker-compose stop

Remove containers

All data will be gone

$ docker-compose rm