multi-node elasticsearch cluster

docker-compose.yml

version: '2.2'
services:
  es01:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.12.0
    container_name: es01
    environment:
      - node.name=es01
      - cluster.name=es-docker-cluster
      - discovery.seed_hosts=es02,es03
      - cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01,es02,es03
      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
    volumes:
      - data01:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
    ports:
      - 9200:9200
    networks:
      - elastic
  es02:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.12.0
    container_name: es02
    environment:
      - node.name=es02
      - cluster.name=es-docker-cluster
      - discovery.seed_hosts=es01,es03
      - cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01,es02,es03
      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
    volumes:
      - data02:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
    networks:
      - elastic
  es03:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.12.0
    container_name: es03
    environment:
      - node.name=es03
      - cluster.name=es-docker-cluster
      - discovery.seed_hosts=es01,es02
      - cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01,es02,es03
      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
    volumes:
      - data03:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
    networks:
      - elastic

  kib01:
    image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.12.0
    container_name: kib01
    ports:
      - 5601:5601
    environment:
      ELASTICSEARCH_URL: http://es01:9200
      ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS: '["http://es01:9200","http://es02:9200","http://es03:9200"]'
    networks:
      - elastic

volumes:
  data01:
    driver: local
  data02:
    driver: local
  data03:
    driver: local

networks:
  elastic:
    driver: bridge

After running $ docker-compose up to initiate the bootstrapping of the containers (es01, es02, es03 and kib01)

Access kibana through https://localhost:5601

Try to checking the health from the cluster by running: $ curl -XGET http://elasticsearch:9200/_cluster/health?pretty

Important: when running this on your machine and you plan on mimicking certain load, you might want to set the following variable: vm.max_map_count. Setting this variable depends on the host machine.

Linux
Setting the variable temporarily: sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144
Setting the variable permanently in /etc/sysctl.conf:

grep vm.max_map_count /etc/sysctl.conf
vm.max_map_count=262144

macOS with Docker for Mac
The vm.max_map_count setting must be set within the xhyve virtual machine:

From the command line, run:

screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/tty

Press enter and use sysctl to configure vm.max_map_count:

sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

To exit the screen session, type: Ctrl a d

Windows and macOS with Docker Desktop
The vm.max_map_count setting must be set via docker-machine:

docker-machine ssh
sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

Windows with Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend
The vm.max_map_count setting must be set in the docker-desktop container:

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

if I lost data with a restart or something happened in the container how i can retrieve the data ?