startEsLocal.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Start a local instance for development only, we should use Elastic.co for other env.

export UID=$(id -u)
export GID=$(id -g)

# If you see permission error on creating the cert in log, then there is a problem with the elasticdata,
# the elasticdata folder and it subdirectory needs to have $UID:$GID

# Create the folder if it doesn't exist
if [ ! -d "elasticdata" ]; then
    mkdir -p "elasticdata"
    chown $UID:$GID "elasticdata"

    mkdir -p "elasticdata/certs"
    chown $UID:$GID "elasticdata/certs"

    mkdir -p "elasticdata/elasticsearch-data"
    chown $UID:$GID "elasticdata/elasticsearch-data"

    mkdir -p "elasticdata/kibana-data"
    chown $UID:$GID "elasticdata/kibana-data"

    mkdir -p "elasticdata/enterprisesearch-data"
    chown $UID:$GID "elasticdata/enterprisesearch-data"
else
    chown -R $UID:$GID "elasticdata"
fi

# If you run in EC2, you need to change the docker-es-compose.yml localhost in cert to the hostname of EC2 and install docker
# docker-compose and sudo chmod 666 /run/docker.sock
docker-compose -f docker-es-compose.yml up --detach --remove-orphans --force-recreate