Creating an ELK stack with Docker

The first node

docker run -d -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 elasticsearch

-d : run in background -p : publish port on the host (we will be able to access containers port 9200 on port 9200 of the host. If the second port is not specified, it will be chosen randomly and can be found with docker ps) elasticsearch : official image. kibana and logstash also exists)

Add kibana

docker run -d --link id_of_the_first_node:elasticsearch -p 5601:5601 kibana

--link will link two nodes

You can now access kibana on port 5601 (leave it some time though)

Add another node

docker run -d --link id_of_the_first_node:elasticsearch elasticsearch