Running Elastic Search with Laradock

Question

I'm trying to get ElasticSearch running with Laradock. ES looks to be supported out of the box with Laradock.

Here's my docker command (run from <project root>/laradock/:

docker-compose up -d nginx postgres redis beanstalkd elasticsearch

However if I run docker ps, the elasticsearch container isn't running.

Both ports 9200 and 9300 are not consumed:

lsof -i :9200

Not sure why the elasticsearch container doesn't persist, it seems to just self close.

output of docker ps -a after running docker-compose up ...

http://pastebin.com/raw/ymfvLPLT

Condensed version:

IMAGE                     STATUS                        PORTS
laradock_nginx            Up 36 seconds                 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp
laradock_elasticsearch    Exited (137) 34 seconds ago
laradock_beanstalkd       Up 37 seconds                 0.0.0.0:11300->11300/tcp
laradock_php-fpm          Up 38 seconds                 9000/tcp
laradock_workspace        Up 39 seconds                 0.0.0.0:2222->22/tcp
tianon/true               Excited (0) 41 seconds ago
laradock_postgres         Up 41 seconds                 0.0.0.0:5432->5432/tcp
laradock_redis            Up 40 seconds                 0.0.0.0:6379->6379/tcp

Output of docker events after running docker-compose up ...

http://pastebin.com/cE9bjs6i

Answer 1

Run on laradock file the command

wsl -d docker-desktop 
sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docker.html#docker-cli-run-prod-mode

Answer 2

Try to check logs first:

docker logs laradock_elasticsearch_1

(or another name of elasticsearch container)

In my case it was

ERROR: [1] bootstrap checks failed
[1]: max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144]

I found solution here namely, i've run on my Ubuntu machine

sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144