Elasticsearch 6 Installation on CentOS 7

[Nirjonadda]

Nirjonadda submitted a new resource:

Elasticsearch 6 Installation on CentOS 7 - This tutorial will help you to setup Elasticsearch 6 on Red Hat/CentOS 7 64 bits based distribution.

This tutorial will help you to setup Elasticsearch on Red Hat/CentOS 6 64 bits based distribution.

1. Verify Java: Java is the primary requirement for installing Elasticsearch. So make sure you have Java installed on your system.

java -version

If you don’t have Java installed on your system, use one of following code to install it first.

Install Java Runtime 1.8

yum install java-1.8.0

or If you need a java compiler and other developer tools:

yum install...

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[Nirjonadda]

Nirjonadda updated Elasticsearch 6 Installation on CentOS 7 with a new update entry:

Update to Elasticsearch 7.0

Update from the RPM repository

Create a file called elasticsearch.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory for RedHat based distributions, or in the /etc/zypp/repos.d/ directory for OpenSuSE based distributions, containing:

[elasticsearch-7.x]
name=Elasticsearch repository for 7.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md

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[ichpen]

Java 8 is End of Life now. You'll want to install Java 11 LTS at this point.

 

[Crash Test]

It is advisable to specify that Elasticsearch listens only to the local host.

sudo nano /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml

network.host: 127.0.0.1

 

[Crash Test]

Where java:

which java
Exemple, /usr/bin/java

Open:

sudo nano /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch

Find:

#JAVA_HOME=

Replace:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/bin/java

 

[rdn]

Elasticsearch is built using Java, and includes a bundled version of OpenJDK from the JDK maintainers (GPLv2+CE) within each distribution. The bundled JVM is the recommended JVM and is located within the jdk directory of the Elasticsearch home directory.

Set up Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide [7.3] | Elastic

www.elastic.co

Java install isn't needed anymore I think.