Elasticsearch.url does not work as an environment variable inside docker-compose

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I am running Kibana 6.3.0 inside docker.
However the elasticsearch.url value specified as an environment variable is not picked up when it is specified in docker-compose.yml. In this case Kibana tries to connect to localhost (default value).

docker-compose.yml:

# Kibana
  kibana:
    build:
      context: kibana/
    container_name: ${ES_KIBANA}
    hostname: ${ES_KIBANA}
    environment:
      - server.name=${ES_KIBANA}
      - elasticsearch.url=http://${ES_CLIENT1}:9200
    volumes:
      - ./kibana/config/kibana.yml:/usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml:ro
    ports:
      - "5601:5601"
    networks:
      - esnet
    depends_on:
      - client1

If I give the same value in kibana.yml, then in works.
kibana.yml:
elasticsearch.url: http://es-docker-client1:9200

The environment variables in docker-compose.yml are correctly resolved as seen in the output of docker-compose config:

  kibana:
    build:
      context: /home/airvana/docker-elk/kibana
    container_name: es-docker-kibana
    depends_on:
    - client1
    environment:
      elasticsearch.url: http://es-docker-client1:9200
      server.name: es-docker-kibana
    hostname: es-docker-kibana
    networks:
      esnet: null
    ports:
    - published: 5601
      target: 5601
    volumes:
    - /home/airvana/docker-elk/kibana/config/kibana.yml:/usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml:ro

Is this a known issue? Thanks.

2

@jarpy - can you please help here ? elasticsearch.url in kibana.yml (or ELASTICSEARCH_URL under the environment: section of kibana in the compose file) must be set to the specific IP of the cluster and port 9200 I guess it does not resolve if its set like what you have shown when you run outside of compose. I have pinged my colleague for more insight into this.

Thanks
Rashmi

3

Aha. Thanks for your tip Rashmi.
I should have been using ELASTICSEARCH_URL instead of elasticsearch.url in the compose file. My bad, it is mentioned in the documentation as well.

4

Glad that its resolved and thanks for posting back.

Cheers
Rashmi

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