I'm not able to start up either the ES or kibana containers and I suspect the root cause has to do with ca-cert issues. i'm attaching my compose file below for reference
- with ES, the log shows this error:
"@timestamp":"2026-08-17T21:38:47.019Z","log.level": "WARN","message":"caught exception while handling client http traffic, closing connection Netty4HttpChannel{localAddress=/172.20.0.2:9200, remoteAddress=/192.168.65.1:58936}", "ecs.version": "1.2.0","service.name":"ES_ECS","event.dataset":"elasticsearch.server","process.thread.name":"elasticsearch[es01][transport_worker][T#3]","log.logger":"org.elasticsearch.http.AbstractHttpServerTransport","elasticsearch.cluster.uuid":"95GZRlGZRlmu9m-yXVTy-g","elasticsearch.node.id":"D9rUdaBgR6aMHwW4AwADAA","elasticsearch.node.name":"es01","elasticsearch.cluster.name":"es-cluster","error.type":"io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException","error.message":"javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: (unknown_ca) Received fatal alert: unknown_ca","error.stack_trace":"io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: (unknown_ca) Received fatal alert: unknown_ca
via curl -k https://127.0.0.1:9200
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception","reason":"missing authentication credentials for REST request [/]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":["Basic realm=\"security\", charset=\"UTF-8\"","Bearer realm=\"security\"","ApiKey"]}}],"type":"security_exception","reason":"missing authentication credentials for REST request [/]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":["Basic realm=\"security\", charset=\"UTF-8\"","Bearer realm=\"security\"","ApiKey"]}},"status":401}
- with kibana the log shows
Unable to retrieve version information from Elasticsearch nodes. getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND elasticsearch
and curl -k https://127.0.0.1:5601 returns
curl: (35) LibreSSL/3.3.6: error:1404B42E:SSL routines:ST_CONNECT:tlsv1 alert protocol version
my compose file is below. thanks very much for suggestions!
name: ocd4oak
volumes:
certs:
driver: local
node_modules:
driver: local
postgres_data:
driver: local
es01_data:
driver: local
kibana_data:
driver: local
networks:
default:
name: elasticsearch
external: false
services:
setup:
image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${ES_VERSION}
volumes:
- certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs
user: "0"
command: >
bash -c '
if [ x${ES_PASSWORD} == x ]; then
echo "Set the ES_PASSWORD environment variable in the .env file";
exit 1;
elif [ x${KIBANA_PASSWORD} == x ]; then
echo "Set the KIBANA_PASSWORD environment variable in the .env file";
exit 1;
fi;
if [ ! -f config/certs/ca.zip ]; then
echo "Creating CA";
bin/elasticsearch-certutil ca --silent --pem -out config/certs/ca.zip;
unzip config/certs/ca.zip -d config/certs;
fi;
if [ ! -f config/certs/certs.zip ]; then
echo "Creating certs";
echo -ne
"instances:\n"
" - name: es01\n"
" dns:\n"
" - es01\n"
" - localhost\n"
" ip:\n"
" - 127.0.0.1\n"
" - name: kibana\n"
" dns:\n"
" - kibana\n"
" - localhost\n"
" ip:\n"
" - 127.0.0.1\n"
> config/certs/instances.yml;
bin/elasticsearch-certutil cert --silent --pem -out config/certs/certs.zip --in config/certs/instances.yml --ca-cert config/certs/ca/ca.crt --ca-key config/certs/ca/ca.key;
unzip config/certs/certs.zip -d config/certs;
fi;
echo "Setting file permissions"
chown -R root:root config/certs;
find . -type d -exec chmod 750 {} ;;
find . -type f -exec chmod 640 {} ;;
echo "Waiting for Elasticsearch availability";
until curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://es01:9200 | grep -q "missing authentication credentials"; do sleep 30; done;
echo "Setting kibana_system password";
until curl -s -X POST --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt -u "elastic:${ES_PASSWORD}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://es01:9200/_security/user/kibana_system/_password -d "{"password":"${KIBANA_PASSWORD}"}" | grep -q "^{}"; do sleep 10; done;
echo "All done!";
'
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "[ -f config/certs/es01/es01.crt ]"]
interval: 1s
timeout: 5s
retries: 120
es01:
depends_on:
setup:
condition: service_healthy
image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${ES_VERSION}
container_name: es01
ports:
- ${ES_PORT}:9200
volumes:
- certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs
- es01_data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
environment:
- node.name=es01
- cluster.name=${ES_CLUSTER_NAME}
- discovery.type=single-node
- ELASTIC_PASSWORD=${ES_PASSWORD}
- bootstrap.memory_lock=true
- xpack.security.enabled=true
- xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true
- xpack.security.http.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
- xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
- xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
- xpack.license.self_generated.type=${ES_LICENSE}
mem_limit: ${ES_MEM_LIMIT}
ulimits:
memlock:
soft: -1
hard: -1
healthcheck:
test:
[
"CMD-SHELL",
"curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt http://elasticsearch:9200 | grep -q 'missing authentication credentials'",
]
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 120
kibana:
depends_on:
es01:
condition: service_healthy
image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:${ES_VERSION}
container_name: ${KIBANA_CONTAINER_NAME}
volumes:
- certs:/usr/share/kibana/config/certs
- kibana_data:/usr/share/kibana/data
ports:
- 127.0.0.1:${KIBANA_PORT}:5601
extra_hosts:
- host.docker.internal:host-gateway
- model-runner.docker.internal:host-gateway
environment:
- SERVER_NAME=kibana
- ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=http://elasticsearch:9200
- ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=kibana_system
- ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=${KIBANA_PASSWORD}
- ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_CERTIFICATEAUTHORITIES=config/certs/ca/ca.crt
# - XPACK_SECURITY_ENCRYPTIONKEY=${ENCRYPTION_KEY}
# - XPACK_ENCRYPTEDSAVEDOBJECTS_ENCRYPTIONKEY=${ENCRYPTION_KEY}
# - XPACK_REPORTING_ENCRYPTIONKEY=${ENCRYPTION_KEY}
healthcheck:
test:
[
"CMD-SHELL",
"curl -s -I http://elasticsearch:5601 | grep -q 'HTTP/1.1 302 Found'",
]
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 30
)