The Windows service will use a private temporary directory under the
user that is performing the installation. In cases when the service will
run as a different user, operators need a method to set this temporary
directory elsewhere. We have such a mechanism, so this commit merely
adds a note to the documentation on how to utilize it.
Relates #28712
* Update Docker docs for 6.0.0-rc2
* Update the docs to match the new Docker "image flavours" of "basic",
"platinum", and "oss".
* Clarifications for Openshift and bind-mounts
* Bump docker-compose 2.x format to 2.2
* Combine Docker Toolbox instructions for setting vm.max_map_count for
both macOS + Windows
* devicemapper is not the default storage driver any more on RHEL
The environment variable CONF_DIR was previously inconsistently used in
our packaging to customize the location of Elasticsearch configuration
files. The importance of this environment variable has increased
starting in 6.0.0 as it's now used consistently to ensure Elasticsearch
and all secondary scripts (e.g., elasticsearch-keystore) all use the
same configuration. The name CONF_DIR is there for legacy reasons yet
it's too generic. This commit renames CONF_DIR to ES_PATH_CONF.
Relates #26197
This commit updates the docs for the config files to explain the new
mechanism for customizing the configuration directory via the
environment variable CONF_DIR.
Relates #25990
This commit adds the min wire/index compat versions to the main action
output. Not only will this make the compatility expected more
transparent, but it also allows to test which version others think the
compat versions are, similar to how we test the lucene version.
Add an Important admonition for upgrading via the command line
using the Windows MSI Installer. This calls out the need to pass
the same command line options for an upgrade as were used for
the initial installation.
We previously tried to maintain (while not formally supporting) 32-bit
support, although we never tested this anywhere in CI. Since we do not
formally support this, and 32-bit usage is very low, we have elected to
no longer maintain 32-bit support. This commit removes any implication
of 32-bit support.
Relates #25435
This commit removes the default path settings for data and logs. With
this change, we now ship the packages with these settings set in the
elasticsearch.yml configuration file rather than going through the
default.path.data and default.path.logs dance that we went through in
the past.
Relates #25408
* Add MSI installation to documentation
Move installation documentation for Windows with the .zip archive into the zip and tar installation documentation, and clearly indicate any differences for installing on macOS/Linux and Windows.
* Separate out installation with .zip on Windows
During package install on systemd-based systems, some sysctl settings
should be set (e.g. vm.max_map_count).
In some environments, changing sysctl settings plainly does not work;
previously a global environment variable named
ES_SKIP_SET_KERNEL_PARAMETERS was introduced to skip calling sysctl, but
this causes trouble for:
- configuration management systems, which usually cannot apply an env
var when running a package manager
- package upgrades, which will not have the env var set any more, and
thus leaving the package management system in a bad state (possibly
half-way upgraded, can be very hard to recover)
This removes the env var again and instead of calling systemd-sysctl
manually, tells systemd to restart the wrapper unit - which itself can
be masked by system administrators or management tools if it is known
that sysctl does not work in a given environment.
The restart is not silent on systems in their default configuration, but
is ignored if the unit is masked.
Relates #24234
Add info about the base image used and the github repo of
elasticsearch-docker.
Clarify that setting `memlock=-1:-1` is only a requirement when
`bootstrap_memory_lock=true` and the alternatives we document
elsewhere in docs for disabling swap are valid for Docker as well.
Additionally, with latest versions of docker-ce shipping with
unlimited (or high enough) defaults for `nofile` and `nproc`, clarify
that explicitly setting those per ES container is not required, unless
they are not defined in the Docker daemon.
Finally simplify production `docker-compose.yml` example by removing
unneeded options.
Relates #24389
For the Windows service, JAVA_HOME should be set to the path to the
JDK. We should make this clear in the docs to help users avoid
frustrating startup problems.
Relates #24260
Elasticsearch runs as user elasticsearch with uid:gid 1000:1000 inside
the Docker container. Clarify that bind mounted local directories need
to be accessible by this user.
Relates #24092
Today Elasticsearch allows default settings to be used only if the
actual setting is not set. These settings are trappy, and the complexity
invites bugs. This commit removes support for default settings with the
exception of default.path.data, default.path.conf, and default.path.logs
which are maintainted to support packaging. A follow-up will remove
support for these as well.
Relates #24093
Fix the `Dockerfile` example in the `Customizing image` third configuration
method by adding the missing RUN instruction.
Originally reported by Shankar Vasudevan (@vshank77).
Relates #21973
#9261 added a warning about the use of `add-apt-repository` which is becoming obsolete over time as new distribution releases include later versions of `add-apt-repository` which don't automatically add the `deb-src` line. This change updates the documentation to make the block a note rather than a warning and adds two other reasons for avoiding `add-apt-repository` which are still relevant: avoiding edits to a system shared file and not requiring a large number of non-default packages to add one line of text to a file.
The reference for the jvm.options docs recently changed from
es-java-opts to jvm-options. This commit fixes a broken reference that
arose as a result of this change.
Elasticsearch can be run in a few different ways:
- from the command line on Linux and Windows
- as a service on Linux and Windows
on both 32-bit client and 64-bit server VMs. We strive for a great
out-of-the-box experience any of these combinations but today it is
lacking on 32-bit client JVMs and on the Windows service. There are two
deficiencies that arise:
- on any 32-bit client JVM we fail to start out of the box because we
force the server JVM in jvm.options
- when installing the Windows service, the thread stack size must be
specified in jvm.options
This commit attempts to address these deficiencies.
We should continue to force the server JVM because there are systems
where the server JVM is not active by default (e.g., the 32-bit JDK on
Windows). This does mean that if a user tries to run with a client JVM
they will see a failure message at startup but this is the best that we
can do if we want to continue to force the server JVM. Thus, this commit
at least documents this situation.
To improve the situation with installing the Windows service, this
commit adds a default setting for the thread stack size. This default is
chosen based on the default thread stack size across all 64-bit server
JVMs. This means that if a user tries to run with a 32-bit JVM they
could otherwise see significantly higher memory usage (this situation is
complicated, it's really only on Windows where the extra memory usage is
egregious, but cutting into the 32-bit address space on any system is
bad). So this commit makes it so that the out-of-the-box experience is
improved for the Windows service on 64-bit server JVMs and we document
the need to adjust this setting on 32-bit JVMs.
Again, we are focusing on the out-of-the-box experience here and this
means optimizing for the best experience on any 64-bit server JVM as
this covers the vast majority of the user base. The users that are on
32-bit JVMs will suffer a little bit but at least now any user on any
64-bit server JVM can start Elasticsearch out of the box.
Finally, we fix some references to the jvm.options documentation.
Relates #21920
During package install on systemd-based systems, we try to set
vm.max_map_count. On some systems (e.g., containers), users do not have
the ability to tune these parameters from within the container. This
commit provides an option for these users to skip setting such kernel
parameters.
Relates #21899
Jason Tedor
Philipp Krenn
Christoph Büscher
Russ Cam
Lisa Cawley
Toby McLaughlin
Amine Daï
Dimitrios Liappis
michaelbaamonde
Ryan Ernst
Deb Adair
Christian Hofstaedtler
Sergey Novikov
Daniel Mitterdorfer
Clinton Gormley
Lee Hinman
Max Goodridge
Shashank Singh
Jordan Robinson
Chris Adams
Nik Everett
Chris Earle
Alexander Lin