Steps for setting up ElasticSearch on AWS

• Checkout Part II of tutorial on running elasticsearch on AWS. (If you are using Amazon Linux Instance)
• Checkout How To Install and Configure Elasticsearch on Ubuntu 14.04 to learn how to install elasticsearch on ubuntu instances.

Steps

1. Installing OpenJDK

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
   

2. Installing Java 8

   sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get -y install oracle-java8-installer
   

3. Downloading and Installing Elasticsearch

   wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.3.0.deb
   sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-5.3.0.deb 
   sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults
   

4. Configurations

   sudo vim /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
   

   Change node.name and cluster.name.

5. Start

   sudo service elasticsearch start