It appears that /usr/share/Elasticsearch/bin was not part of the PATH and it caused this problem. I'm not sure why it is different from 7.10 setup but adding export PATH=/usr/share/Elasticsearch:$PATH before running docker-entrypoint.sh resolved the problem
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