Install and Run with Docker

Install and run using docker:

docker pull docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:5.6.9
docker run -d --name elasticsearch5 -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e cluster.name=elasticsearch -e xpack.ml.enabled=false -e xpack.security.enabled=false docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:5.6.9

Set port values that do not conflict with other existing installation (e.g. Elasticsearch 2 which is currently running in parallel)

Start and Stop

docker stop elasticsearch5

docker start elasticsearch5

See Logs of Elasticsearch

To see logs in case of problems for debugging:

docker logs elasticsearch5

Register as a System Service

Register as a service using the start script in ./servicescripts/elasticsearch5.

• Copy the script elasticsearch5 to /etc/init.d
• chmod to be executable: chmod a+x elasticsearch5
• service elasticsearch5 start
• service elasticsearch5 stop
• Register the service to start on startup:

    sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch5 defaults 95 10
    sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch5 start
  

Configure max_map_count

To avoid this error message: max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144]

Temporary configuration:

sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

Permanent configuration:

Change the value in /etc/sysctl.conf to vm.max_map_count=262144

Source: https://github.com/docker-library/elasticsearch/issues/111