Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Running a container

To have confidence that our Dockerized Elasticsearch container is working, we should first stop our existing Elasticsearch daemon:

$ sudo systemctl stop elasticsearch.service$ sudo systemctl status elasticsearch.service● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; disabled; vend   Active: inactive (dead)     Docs: http://www.elastic.co

As a test, run the E2E tests on our API repository and make sure you get errors similar to Error: No Living connections. This means Elasticsearch is not running and our API cannot connect to it.

Now, use the docker run command to run the elasticsearch-oss image as a container:

$ docker run --name elasticsearch -e "discovery.type=single-node" ...