sixeyed/elasticsearch repository overview

⁠Elasticsearch

Windows Nano Server image for Elasticsearch⁠. (Dockerfile⁠)

⁠Usage

Run in the background to start a containerized Elasticsearch node:

docker run -d -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 --name elasticsearch sixeyed/elasticsearch:nanoserver

Other containers in the Docker network can work with the server using hostname elasticsearch and port 9200.

You can query the Elasticsearch API⁠ from the container host using its IP address:

$ip = docker inspect -f '{{ .NetworkSettings.Networks.nat.IPAddress }}' elasticsearch
iwr "http://$($ip):9200"

⁠JVM Memory Allocation

Running a container may fail on Windows 10 hosts if they don't have enough RAM. The Hyper-V container doesn't allocate enough memory for the JVM and you'll see an error in the container logs:

Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap

You can force the memory allocation using the --memory option, on my 8GB Surface I find 3GB is enough to get Elasticsearch running:

docker run -d -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -m 3GB --name elasticsearch sixeyed/elasticsearch:nanoserver