If you just signed up for an Elastic Cloud trial account, you will be asked to create a deployment as part of your onboarding.

If you need to create a new deployment on a paid account, follow these instructions:

Select your preferred cloud provider and region.

Select your desired hardware profile and version, or use the suggested defaults if unsure.

To authenticate against the Elasticsearch service you are going to need the Cloud ID that was assigned to your deployment.

Follow these steps to obtain your Cloud ID:

The Cloud ID is displayed on the right side of the page. See the screenshot below as a reference.

For security purposes, it is recommended that you create an API Key to use when authenticating to the Elasticsearch service.

 API key to the clipboard, and paste it on a local text document for safe keeping until you need to use it.


Elastic Cloud

For the purposes of this tutorial, a single node deployment of Elasticsearch is sufficient. The command below starts the service in a Docker container:

You may want to change the version Elasticsearch number in the command above for the latest version available.

A few seconds after running the command, the Elasticsearch service should be running on 

. Open this link on your browser to confirm that the service is up and running.

Note that the above command starts the service with authentication and encryption disabled, which means that anyone who connects to the service will be given access. While this is convenient for experimenting and learning Elasticsearch, 

you should never run the service in this way in production, or in a computer that is directly connected to the Internet

The service is started with a trial license. The trial license enables all features of Elasticsearch, including RRF and ML Inference, for a trial period of 30 days. After the trial period expires, the license is downgraded to a basic license, which is free forever. If you prefer to skip the trial and use the basic license, set the value of the 

 instead. For a detailed feature comparison between the different licenses, refer to 

If you are interested in a self-hosted production deployment of Elasticsearch, refer to the following links:

Docker

In this section you will learn about some of the options you have for running Elasticsearch. Most of the tutorials and content on this site will require you to first follow the instructions below for your chosen method of installation.

In this section we will cover two convenient installation options for Elasticsearch:

 - Good option for development and production environments. Elastic Cloud is a hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana service available on AWS, GCP, and Azure. It offers a 14-day free trial.

 - Good option for local development and testing.

Note that these aren't the only ways to deploy Elasticsearch. You can find a discussion of other deployment options in the 

Install Elasticsearch

How to run Elasticsearch

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