Elasticsearch installation

First things first. Let's install Elasticsearch.

Please do the following steps to install Elasticsearch on your server. It is assumed that you are installing Elasticsearch using CentOS 7 on your server.

What minimum Hardware is required?

  • RAM: 4 GB
  • CPU: 2

Which JDK needs to be installed? We need JDK 8. If you don't have JDK 8 installed on your server, do the following steps to install JDK 8:

  1. Change to home folder:
 $ cd ~
  1. Download JDK RPM:
$ wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u73-b02/jdk-8u73-linux-x64.rpm
  1. Install RMP using YUM (it is assumed that you have ...

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