# Supported tags and respective `Dockerfile` links - [`1.3.9`, `1.3` (*1.3/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/elasticsearch/blob/03a5bda1ff2d27b000e5236082b26975a6a44c2e/1.3/Dockerfile) - [`1.4.4`, `1.4`, `1`, `latest` (*1.4/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/elasticsearch/blob/03a5bda1ff2d27b000e5236082b26975a6a44c2e/1.4/Dockerfile) For more information about this image and its history, please see the [relevant manifest file (`library/elasticsearch`)](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/blob/master/library/elasticsearch) in the [`docker-library/official-images` GitHub repo](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images). # What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a search server based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is a registered trademark of Elasticsearch BV. > [wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch) ![logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker-library/docs/master/elasticsearch/logo.png) # How to use this image You can run the default `elasticsearch` command simply: docker run -d elasticsearch You can also pass in additional flags to `elasticsearch`: docker run -d elasticsearch elasticsearch -Des.node.name="TestNode" This image comes with a default set of configuration files for `elasticsearch`, but if you want to provide your own set of configuration files, you can do so via a volume mounted at `/usr/share/elasticsearch/config`: docker run -d -v "$PWD/config":/usr/share/elasticsearch/config elasticsearch This image is configured with a volume at `/usr/share/elasticsearch/data` to hold the persisted index data. Use that path if you would like to keep the data in a mounted volume: docker run -d -v "$PWD/esdata":/usr/share/elasticsearch/data elasticsearch # License View [license information](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/66b5ed86f7adede8102cd4d979b9f4924e5bd837/LICENSE.txt) for the software contained in this image. # Supported Docker versions This image is officially supported on Docker version 1.5.0. Support for older versions (down to 1.0) is provided on a best-effort basis. # User Feedback ## Issues If you have any problems with or questions about this image, please contact us through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/docker-library/elasticsearch/issues). You can also reach many of the official image maintainers via the `#docker-library` IRC channel on [Freenode](https://freenode.net). ## Contributing You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small; we are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as we can. Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/docker-library/elasticsearch/issues), especially for more ambitious contributions. This gives other contributors a chance to point you in the right direction, give you feedback on your design, and help you find out if someone else is working on the same thing.