Unable to start elasticsearch docker container

Question

I have installed docker on arch os and I have been using docker for a while now. Recently, docker run -v "$PWD/esdata":/usr/share/elasticsearch/data -d -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Xms1g -Xmx1g" elasticsearch:5.1 no longer works and the container automatically stops in a sec. I then tried the solution given here. By adding tail -f /dev/null to the end of my previous command. Now, the container runs but I get nothing when I go to localhost:9200

Answer 1

Came across the same issue with below command

docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e "discovery.type=single-node" docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:6.2.4

My environment is docker on MacOS. As per 'For those using Windows or OSX ' section in this article Docker memory needs to be 4GB min. After changing the memory limit, container started without any issues.

Answer 2

in my case, it was a permission issue so I added permission next to the volume:

this one: //read, write and execute

version: '3'

services:
  elasticsearch:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:6.2.4
    environment:
      - discovery.type=single-node
    volumes:
      - /home/shared-content-initiative/elasticsearch:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data //read, write and execute
      - ./elasticsearch.yml:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.yml