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Install Elasticsearch on macOS with Homebrew

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Install Elasticsearch on macOS with Homebrew

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Elastic publishes Homebrew formulae so you can install Elasticsearch with the Homebrew package manager.

To install with Homebrew, you first need to tap the Elastic Homebrew repository:

brew tap elastic/tap

Once you’ve tapped the Elastic Homebrew repo, you can use brew install to install the latest version of Elasticsearch:

brew install elastic/tap/elasticsearch-full

Directory layout for Homebrew installs

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When you install Elasticsearch with brew install the config files, logs, and data directory are stored in the following locations.

Type Description Default Location Setting

home

Elasticsearch home directory or $ES_HOME

/usr/local/var/homebrew/linked/elasticsearch-full

bin

Binary scripts including elasticsearch to start a node and elasticsearch-plugin to install plugins

/usr/local/var/homebrew/linked/elasticsearch-full/bin

conf

Configuration files including elasticsearch.yml

/usr/local/etc/elasticsearch

ES_PATH_CONF

data

The location of the data files of each index / shard allocated on the node.

/usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch

path.data

logs

Log files location.

/usr/local/var/log/elasticsearch

path.logs

plugins

Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory.

/usr/local/var/homebrew/linked/elasticsearch/plugins

Next steps

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You now have a test Elasticsearch environment set up. Before you start serious development or go into production with Elasticsearch, you must do some additional setup:

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