Installing OpenSearch

At the time of writing, there are three methods for installing OpenSearch – Docker, tarball, and an Ansible recipe. Here, you will learn how to install it using Docker because that is the easiest and fastest way to deploy an OpenSearch instance, or even a cluster.

You can reach the Docker images in the Docker hub through the following link: https://hub.docker.com/u/opensearchproject.

To get the latest images of OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards, you can run the following commands:

docker pull opensearchproject/opensearch:latest

docker pull opensearchproject/opensearch-dashboards:latest

To deploy a single instance of OpenSearch, run the following command:

docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9600:9600 -e "discovery.type=single-node" opensearchproject/opensearch:latest

To check that it’s working, go to your web browser and point it to this address: https://localhost:9200.

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