Local Installation

Installing Elasticsearch on your local Mac computer. I have a Mac laptop so this local installation will be for Mac users but you can google Elasticsearch Windows installation.

I use docker and here is the docker command, 

docker pull docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.1.0

Once you have pulled the elasticsearch image, run the following command to start Elasticsearch 

docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e "discovery.type=single-node" docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.1.0

If you want to keep your local Elasticsearch server running at all times then run this command. Even when you turn off your computer, it will start back up when you computer comes back on.

docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 --name elasticsearch -e "discovery.type=single-node" -dit --restart unless-stopped -d docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.1.0

To check if installation well, go to localhost:9200/_cat/nodes?v&pretty on your browser.

You should see something like this which is the status of your Elasticsearch node.

ip         heap.percent ram.percent cpu load_1m load_5m load_15m node.role master name
172.17.0.3           20          96   0    0.00    0.02     0.00 mdi       *      f3056ceb45a2

You also need to install kibana which is a UI interface that works with Elasticsearch

Docker command to pull kibana docker image

docker pull docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.1.0

Run this command to start your kibana server

docker run --link YOUR_ELASTICSEARCH_CONTAINER_NAME_OR_ID:elasticsearch -p 5601:5601 {docker-repo}:{version}