We have available online a lot of snippets that we can use if we want to start a container with Elasticsearch with base configuration in our computer.
But if we want a Elasticsearch with synonyms files and custom configuration? Can be a little more difficult to find a snippet with all the details. Having that in mind I decide to make a more detailed post with custom configurations for our docker container.
Requirements:
- Docker already installed in our system
- Login in Docker
- Visual Studio code or some editor from your preference to create and edit the files
First, the Dockerfile:
- Create a new file called Dockerfile without extension where we will set all the steps that we need to customize our Elasticsearch installation.
- Decide what will be the version that we want to use. For the example, we will be using the 8.6.0.
- The first line will be:
From docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.6.0 as elasticsearch- Add synonym files — the synonyms_path should be the path in the host for the folder containing synonym's files inside the same folder where we have the Dockerfile:
ADD ./{synonyms_path}/…