Elasticsearch setup

Installing Elasticsearch¶

The installation on this article is based on RHEL version 8, you can use yum instead of dnf.

Switch to superuser

sudo su

Update applications installed on a system

dnf update

Install vim editor - the colored editor may indicate errors in the config files

dnf -y install vim

Install java. You can specify the version and release you desire.

dnf -y install java

Import the elasticsearch GnuPG key

rpm --import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch

Create a file called elasticsearch.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory with the command

vim /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo

and paste the following then save the file:

[elasticsearch] 
name=Elasticsearch repository for  8.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/8.x/yum
gpgcheck=1 
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=0 
autorefresh=1 
type=rpm-md

Install Elasticsearch

dnf install --enablerepo=elasticsearch elasticsearch
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable elasticsearch.service
systemctl start elasticsearch.service

Reference link Elasticsearch setup