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mDNS enabled official/elasticsearch

Continuous Integration Source Code Docker Image

This Docker images provides the official/elasticsearch image as base with the mDNS/ZeroConf stack on top. So you can enjoy elasticsearch while it is accessible by default as elasticsearch.local. (Port 9200, 80 via proxy)

Requirements

  • Host enabled Avahi daemon
  • Host enabled mDNS NSS lookup

Getting starting

You just need to run it like that, to get a working elasticsearch:

$ docker run --rm hausgold/elasticsearch

The port 9200 is proxied by haproxy to port 80 to make elasticsearch.local directly accessible. The port 9200 and 9300 are untouched.

docker-compose usage example

elasticsearch:
  image: hausgold/elasticsearch
  environment:
    # Mind the .local suffix
    MDNS_HOSTNAME=elasticsearch.test.local
    ES_JAVA_OPTS: -Xms96m -Xmx96m
    discovery.type: single-node
  ports:
    # The ports are just for you to know when configure your
    # container links, on depended containers
    - "9200"
    - "9300"
  ulimits:
    # Due to systemd/pam RLIMIT_NOFILE settings (max int inside the
    # container), the Java process seams to allocate huge limits which result
    # in a +unable to allocate file descriptor table - out of memory+ error.
    # Lowering this value fixes the issue for now.
    #
    # See: http://bit.ly/2U62A80
    # See: http://bit.ly/2T2Izit
    nofile:
      soft: 100000
      hard: 100000

Host configs

Install the nss-mdns package, enable and start the avahi-daemon.service. Then, edit the file /etc/nsswitch.conf and change the hosts line like this:

hosts: ... mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns ...

Configure a different mDNS hostname

The magic environment variable is MDNS_HOSTNAME. Just pass it like that to your docker run command:

$ docker run --rm -e MDNS_HOSTNAME=something.else.local hausgold/elasticsearch

This will result in something.else.local.

You can also configure multiple aliases (CNAME's) for your container by passing the MDNS_CNAMES environment variable. It will register all the comma separated domains as aliases for the container, next to the regular mDNS hostname.

$ docker run --rm \
  -e MDNS_HOSTNAME=something.else.local \
  -e MDNS_CNAMES=nothing.else.local,special.local \
  hausgold/elasticsearch

This will result in something.else.local, nothing.else.local and special.local.

Other top level domains

By default .local is the default mDNS top level domain. This images does not force you to use it. But if you do not use the default .local top level domain, you need to configure your host avahi to accept it.

Further reading