docker-elasticsearch-alpine

Alpine Linux based Elasticsearch Docker Image

Table of Contents

• docker-elasticsearch-alpine
  • Why?
  • Dependencies
  • Image Tags
  • Getting Started
  • Documentation
  • Known Issues ⚠️
  • Issues
  • Credits
  • License

Why?

Compare Image Sizes:

• official elasticsearch = 791.6 MB
• blacktop/elasticsearch = 447.28 MB

blacktop version is 518 MB smaller !

Dependencies

• alpine:3.14

Image Tags

REPOSITORY               TAG                 SIZE
blacktop/elasticsearch   latest              447MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.15                447MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.10                294MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.9                 297MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.8                 296MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.7                 294MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.6                 293MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.5                 288MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.4                 288MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.3                 289MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.2                 358MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.1                 304MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   7.0                 304MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   6.8                 281MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   6.7                 192MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   6.6                 128MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   6.5                 127MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   6.4                 127MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   6.3                 120MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   6.2                 119MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   6.1                 119MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   6.0                 117MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   5.6                 124MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   5.5                 123MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   5.4                 123MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   5.3                 123MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   x-pack              1.05GB
blacktop/elasticsearch   5.2                 150MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   5.1                 149MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   5.0                 148.4MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   2.4                 116MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   kopf                122MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   2.3                 139.1MB
blacktop/elasticsearch   1.7                 142.7MB

Getting Started

$ docker run -d --name elastic -p 9200:9200 blacktop/elasticsearch

Documentation

• To create an elasticsearch cluster
• To increase the HEAP_SIZE to 2GB
• To monitor the clusters metrics using dockerbeat
• To run in production

Known Issues ⚠️

I have noticed when running the new 5.0+ version on a linux host you need to increase the memory map areas with the following command

sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

Issues

Find a bug? Want more features? Find something missing in the documentation? Let me know! Please don't hesitate to file an issue

Credits

Heavily (if not entirely) influenced by https://github.com/docker-library/elasticsearch
Production docs from https://stefanprodan.com/2016/elasticsearch-cluster-with-docker/

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2016-2021 blacktop