ElasticSearch upstart script

elasticsearch.conf

# ElasticSearch Service

description     "ElasticSearch"

start on (net-device-up
          and local-filesystems
          and runlevel [2345])

stop on runlevel [016]

respawn

respawn limit 10 30

 
# NB: Upstart scripts do not respect
# /etc/security/limits.conf, so the open-file limits
# settings need to be applied here.
limit nofile 32000 32000

console output

script
  if [ -f /etc/default/elasticsearch ]; then
    . /etc/default/elasticsearch
  fi
  
  export ES_HOME=/opt/elasticsearch-1.1.0
  export ES_MIN_MEM=256m
  export ES_MAX_MEM=2g
  DAEMON="${ES_HOME}/bin/elasticsearch"
  DATA_DIR="/lucene-index"
  CONFIG_DIR="${ES_HOME}/config"
  LOG_DIR="/var/log/elasticsearch"

  sudo -E -u ubuntu $DAEMON -Des.path.conf=$CONFIG_DIR -Des.path.home=$ES_HOME -Des.path.logs=$LOG_DIR -Des.path.data=$DATA_DIR
end script