ElasticSearch: Installation in Ubuntu

Install Java JDK

• You need java jdk installed

Create User for Elastic Search

• Create a user "elastic" to run elasticsearch under.

Setup Environment Variables

Set up the env variables for the "elastic" user.

• Set JAVA HOME env variables.
• Elastic Search consume significant amount of memory and may fail on startup.
  • You can limit heapsize of java memory by setting ES_JAVA_OPTS

export ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx512m"

Links

• https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/deb.html