Bitnami Elasticsearch Stack is a freely downloadable and cross-platform software project that provides users with an all-in-one graphical installer that helps them easily and quickly deploy the Elasticsearch web-based application and its runtime dependencies on personal computers.
What is Elasticsearch?
Elasticsearch is an open source, free and flexible distributed real-time analytics and search engine. The Bitnami Elasticsearch Stack includes ready-to-run versions of the Elasticsearch, Elasticsearch Head plugin and Oracle Java.
Getting started with Bitnami Elasticsearch Stack
The Bitnami Elasticsearch Stack product is available for all mainstream operating systems, supporting GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. To install it on your GNU/Linux distribution, download the package that corresponds to your computer platform (32-bit or 64-bit).
Save the self-executable file on your desktop or Home folder, make it executable (right click on the file, go to Properties, access the Permissions tab and check the “Allow executing file as program” option), double-click it and follow the instruction displayed on the screen.
During the installation, you will be asked to choose the target directory for the installation, which can be a folder on your Home directory, as well as to specify the node host for the Elasticsearch app.
Run Elasticsearch in the cloud
In addition to installing Elasticsearch on your personal computer, it is also possible to run the application in the cloud using the pre-build cloud images created by Bitnami for the Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure cloud hosting providers. Bitnami also offers its own cloud infrastructure for running web apps like Elasticsearch.
Virtualize Elasticsearch on VMware and VirtualBox
Another interesting features is that you will be able to virtualize Elasticsearch on the Oracle VirtualBox and VMware ESX/ESXi virtualization software, thanks to Bitnami’s virtual appliance based on the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release of the Ubuntu Linux operating system.