How to run an Elasticsearch 7 single node cluster for local development using Docker Compose?

For one of our projects, we recently upgraded an Elasticsearch 6 cluster to Elasticearch version 7. For local development 90% of the time:

While upgrading my docker-compose.yml to start Elasticsearch 7.x and Kibana 7.x for local development instead of 6.x I ran into issues. My Elasticsearch single node cluster was not starting anymore!

Bootstrap error from the logs of the Elasticsearch Docker container:

To run the Elasticsearch 7 Docker image in development mode, you should set discovery.type to single-node. At startup, the bootstrap checks are bypassed. The single node will elect itself as the master node and will not join a cluster with any other node.

A complete docker-compose.yml example to run a single node Elasticsearch 7 Cluster including Kibana:

Start Elasticsearch and Kibana using Docker Compose:

To shut down Elasticsearch and Kibana run:

In case you also would like to remove the docker volume while shutting down run:

For more details about Elasticsearch 7 related to my blogpost check out:

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