Hi, I try to install an Elasticsearch (v8.10.2) cluster (with one Kibana and one Logstash container) on Docker for a production environment. My 3 nodes are running correctly on the same server (it will be different in production but I'm currently not at this stage).
I tried to stop them one by one to be sure that if the master node becomes down, another gets the role. If one of the two lasts is down, the cluster stays green, but if the first node is stopped, I lost the connection with the two others.
I started from the blog and the documentation docker compose file (GitHub repository) to build my own configuration file. Here is my 'docker-compose.yml' (I tried different options, so I only put what's functional at the moment):
version: "2.2"
services:
setup:
image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${STACK_VERSION}
volumes:
- certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs
user: "0"
command: >
bash -c '
if [ x${ELASTIC_PASSWORD} == x ]; then
echo "Set the ELASTIC_PASSWORD environment variable in the .env file";
exit 1;
elif [ x${KIBANA_PASSWORD} == x ]; then
echo "Set the KIBANA_PASSWORD environment variable in the .env file";
exit 1;
fi;
if [ ! -f config/certs/ca.zip ]; then
echo "Creating CA";
bin/elasticsearch-certutil ca --silent --pem -out config/certs/ca.zip;
unzip config/certs/ca.zip -d config/certs;
fi;
if [ ! -f config/certs/certs.zip ]; then
echo "Creating certs";
echo -ne \
"instances:\n"\
" - name: es01\n"\
" dns:\n"\
" - es01\n"\
" - localhost\n"\
" ip:\n"\
" - 127.0.0.1\n"\
" - name: es02\n"\
" dns:\n"\
" - es02\n"\
" - localhost\n"\
" ip:\n"\
" - 127.0.0.1\n"\
" - name: es03\n"\
" dns:\n"\
" - es03\n"\
" - localhost\n"\
" ip:\n"\
" - 127.0.0.1\n"\
> config/certs/instances.yml;
bin/elasticsearch-certutil cert --silent --pem -out config/certs/certs.zip --in config/certs/instances.yml --ca-cert config/certs/ca/ca.crt --ca-key config/certs/ca/ca.key
unzip config/certs/certs.zip -d config/certs;
fi;
echo "Setting file permissions"
chown -R root:root config/certs;
find . -type d -exec chmod 750 \{\} \;;
find . -type f -exec chmod 640 \{\} \;;
echo "Waiting for Elasticsearch availability";
until curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://es01:9200 | grep -q "missing authentication credentials"; do sleep 30; done;
echo "Setting kibana_system password";
until curl -s -X POST --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt -u "elastic:${ELASTIC_PASSWORD}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://es01:9200/_security/user/kibana_system/_password -d "{\"password\":\"${KIBANA_PASSWORD}\"}" | grep -q "^{}"; do sleep 10; done;
echo "All done!";
'
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "[ -f config/certs/es01/es01.crt ]"]
interval: 1s
timeout: 5s
retries: 120
es01:
depends_on:
setup:
condition: service_healthy
image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${STACK_VERSION}
volumes:
- certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs
- esdata01:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
ports:
- ${ES_PORT}:9200
# - ${ES_PORT_2}:9300
environment:
- node.name=es01
- cluster.name=${CLUSTER_NAME}
- cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01,es02,es03
- discovery.seed_hosts=es02,es03
- ELASTIC_PASSWORD=${ELASTIC_PASSWORD}
- bootstrap.memory_lock=true
- xpack.security.enabled=true
- xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true
- xpack.security.http.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
- xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
- xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
- xpack.license.self_generated.type=${LICENSE}
mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT}
ulimits:
memlock:
soft: -1
hard: -1
healthcheck:
test:
[
"CMD-SHELL",
"curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://localhost:9200 | grep -q 'missing authentication credentials'",
]
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 120
es02:
depends_on:
setup:
condition: service_healthy
image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${STACK_VERSION}
volumes:
- certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs
- esdata02:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
ports:
- 9201:9200
# - 9301:9300
environment:
- node.name=es02
- cluster.name=${CLUSTER_NAME}
- cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01,es02,es03
- discovery.seed_hosts=es01,es03
- bootstrap.memory_lock=true
- xpack.security.enabled=true
- xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true
- xpack.security.http.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
- xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
- xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
- xpack.license.self_generated.type=${LICENSE}
mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT}
ulimits:
memlock:
soft: -1
hard: -1
healthcheck:
test:
[
"CMD-SHELL",
"curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://localhost:9200 | grep -q 'missing authentication credentials'",
]
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 120
es03:
depends_on:
setup:
condition: service_healthy
image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${STACK_VERSION}
volumes:
- certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs
- esdata03:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
ports:
- 9202:9200
# - 9302:9300
environment:
- node.name=es03
- cluster.name=${CLUSTER_NAME}
- cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01,es02,es03
- discovery.seed_hosts=es01,es02
- bootstrap.memory_lock=true
- xpack.security.enabled=true
- xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true
- xpack.security.http.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
- xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
- xpack.license.self_generated.type=${LICENSE}
mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT}
ulimits:
memlock:
soft: -1
hard: -1
healthcheck:
test:
[
"CMD-SHELL",
"curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://localhost:9200 | grep -q 'missing authentication credentials'",
]
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 120
kibana:
depends_on:
setup:
condition: service_healthy
image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:${STACK_VERSION}
volumes:
- certs:/usr/share/kibana/config/certs
- kibanadata:/usr/share/kibana/data
ports:
- ${KIBANA_PORT}:5601
environment:
- SERVERNAME=kibana
- ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=https://es01:9200
- ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=kibana_system
- ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=${KIBANA_PASSWORD}
- ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_CERTIFICATEAUTHORITIES=config/certs/ca/ca.crt
- ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_VERIFICATIONMODE=certificate
- XPACK_SECURITY_ENABLED=true
- SERVER_SSL_ENABLED=true
- SERVER_SSL_KEY=config/certs/es01/es01.key
- SERVER_SSL_CERTIFICATE=config/certs/es01/es01.crt
- XPACK_ENCRYPTEDSAVEDOBJECTS_ENCRYPTIONKEY=${KIBANA_OBJECTS_ENCRYPTION_KEY}
- XPACK_REPORTING_ENCRYPTIONKEY=${KIBANA_REPORTS_ENCRYPTION_KEY}
- XPACK_SECURITY_ENCRYPTIONKEY=${KIBANA_SECURITY_ENCRYPTION_KEY}
mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT}
healthcheck:
test:
[
"CMD-SHELL",
"curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt -I https://localhost:5601 | grep -q 'HTTP/1.1 302 Found'"
]
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 120
logstash:
depends_on:
setup:
condition: service_healthy
image: docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:${STACK_VERSION}
user: root
volumes:
- ./logstash/config:/usr/share/logstash/config:ro,Z
- ./logstash/pipeline:/usr/share/logstash/pipeline:ro,Z
- certs:/usr/share/logstash/config/certs
- logstashdata:/usr/share/logstash/data
environment:
- ELASTIC_HOSTS=https://es01:9200
- ELASTIC_USER=elastic
- ELASTIC_PASSWORD=${ELASTIC_PASSWORD}
- LOGSTASH_INTERNAL_PASSWORD=${LOGSTASH_PASSWORD}
volumes:
certs:
driver: local
esdata01:
driver: local
esdata02:
driver: local
esdata03:
driver: local
kibanadata:
driver: local
logstashdata:
driver: local
I don't know what I should add, so that the communication with the two last nodes stays enabled, even if the first one is cancelled. I didn't find what I'm looking for in the documentation and tutorial templates are almost always incorrect in my case. After a lot of attempts, I'm stuck on this. If someone has an idea, I'll be thankful 
I can give more details if asked. Thanks