Installing Elasticsearch

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Hosted Elasticsearch

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Elasticsearch can be run on your own hardware or using our hosted Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud, which is available on AWS and GCP. You can try out the hosted service for free.

Installing Elasticsearch Yourself

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Elasticsearch is provided in the following package formats:

zip/tar.gz

The zip and tar.gz packages are suitable for installation on any system and are the easiest choice for getting started with Elasticsearch on most systems.

Install Elasticsearch with .zip or .tar.gz or Install Elasticsearch with .zip on Windows

deb

The deb package is suitable for Debian, Ubuntu, and other Debian-based systems. Debian packages may be downloaded from the Elasticsearch website or from our Debian repository.

Install Elasticsearch with Debian Package

rpm

The rpm package is suitable for installation on Red Hat, Centos, SLES, OpenSuSE and other RPM-based systems. RPMs may be downloaded from the Elasticsearch website or from our RPM repository.

Install Elasticsearch with RPM

msi

[beta] This functionality is in beta and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. The msi package is suitable for installation on Windows 64-bit systems with at least .NET 4.5 framework installed, and is the easiest choice for getting started with Elasticsearch on Windows. MSIs may be downloaded from the Elasticsearch website.

Install Elasticsearch with Windows MSI Installer

docker

Images are available for running Elasticsearch as Docker containers. They may be downloaded from the Elastic Docker Registry.

Install Elasticsearch with Docker

Configuration Management Tools

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We also provide the following configuration management tools to help with large deployments: