How to Setup up an Elastic Version 7 Cluster

Here we will install ElasticSearch and Kibana using Ubuntu 16.04 and ElasticSearch 7.0.1. At the bottom are some troubleshooting notes.

ElasticSearch has become a public company now, having made an IPO and sold shares. One of its first actions was to create ElasticSearch version 7. Unfortunately the installation instructions for how to set up a cluster with version have changed. So we have written new instructions. The main difference from what we wrote below is there is no need to add any discovery plugins or configure those.

So these instructions replace the version 6 instructions we wrote here.

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Server names

For this example we have two servers. Change the names and IP addresses to match your environment. Don’t use loopback address as we will make a cluster of two servers. Instead use their internal IP addresses.

172.31.46.15 parisx
172.31.47.43 paris2x

And we have this public IP address so we can access Kibana from the internet:

ec2-35-180-186-122.eu-west-3.compute.amazonaws.com:5601

Firewall Ports

Open firewall ports 9200 (http interface), 9300 (transport), and 5601 (KIbana.)