Elasticsearch in Docker container cluster

Question

I want to run 2 instances of Elasticsearch on 2 different hosts.

I have built my own Docker image based on Ubuntu 14.04 and the 1.3.2 version of Elasticsearch. If I r

Answer 1

You should be able to communicate the two containers running in different hosts as far as the host machines are accessible between them in the ports needed. I think your problem is that you are trying to use ElasticSearch multicast discovery, but if then you need to expose also port 54328 of the containers. If it doesn't work you can also try to configure ElasticSearch using unicast, setting adequately the machines IP's in your elasticsearch.yml.