Installation

The Elasticsearch tarball installation works on Linux systems. The tarball supports RHEL7, CentOS 7 and most other Linux distributions. You must install Java and set JAVA_HOME before starting the install.

1. Download the tarball and veridy the checksum. See the links in the compatible Elasticsearch version page

2. Extract the TAR file to a directory and change to that directory:

   tar -zxf elasticsearch-oss-7.8.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
   cd elasticsearch-7.8.0

3. Run Elasticsearch:

   ./bin/elasticsearch

Configuration

You can modify config/elasticsearch.yml or specify environment variables as arguments using -E