How to install elasticsearch on GCP

Additional:

wget -V

If wget not found:

sudo apt-get install wget

Step1. Go through the official elasticsearch instruction:

Install Elasticsearch from archive on Linux or MacOS | Elasticsearch Reference [7.9] | Elastic

wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-7.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-7.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512

shasum -a 512 -c elasticsearch-7.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512

tar -xzf elasticsearch-7.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

cd elasticsearch-7.9.2/

Step2. Change config

cd /elasticsearch-7.9.2/config

vi elasticsearch.yml

Set config to:

network.host: 0.0.0.0

Step3. Run elasticsearch

./bin/elasticsearch

Step 4. Create firewall rule

Network: default (the network your GCP instance is in)

Priority: 1000

Direction: Ingress

Action on match: Allow

Source filters: IP ranges 0.0.0.0/0

Tags: http, https

Open in browser

external_IP:9200

{
  "name" : "instance-1",
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "cluster_uuid" : "ESa1GSc_ROSMn3Wk1Xn8Jw",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "7.9.2",
    "build_flavor" : "default",
    "build_type" : "tar",
    "build_hash" : "d34da0ea4a966c4e49417f2da2f244e3e97b4e6e",
    "build_date" : "2020-09-23T00:45:33.626720Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "8.6.2",
    "minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "6.8.0",
    "minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "6.0.0-beta1"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}