Elastic search installation notes

Install Elastic Search on Mac

Make sure you have homebrew installed first!

Install Java 8

  1. brew tap caskroom/versions: installing elastic search using homebrew requires Java8…
  2. brew cask install java8
  1. brew install elasticsearch
  2. Run brew info elasticsearch, you will see where the data is stored. For example, you will see…
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Data:    /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_henrybear327/
Logs:    /usr/local/var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_henrybear327.log
Plugins: /usr/local/var/elasticsearch/plugins/
Config:  /usr/local/etc/elasticsearch/

Simply run elasticsearch in the terminal, you will see a lot of messages being thrown to your screen.

Wait for a while until you see something like this…

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[2018-03-03T11:02:49,111][INFO ][o.e.h.n.Netty4HttpServerTransport] [FOq2ljA] publish_address {127.0.0.1:9200}, bound_addresses {[::1]:9200}, {127.0.0.1:9200}

You are good to go!

Elastic Search Usages

Python API

We will use elasticsearch-py.

  1. Setup virtual environment: virtualenv venv, or use conda if you wish
  2. Activate the virtual environment: source venv/bin/activate
  3. Install the package: pip install elasticsearch

Read the documentation