How to add an elasticsearch index during docker build

Question

I use the official elasticsearch docker image and wonder how can I include also during building a custom index, so that the index is already there when I start the container

Answer 1

The simple way of doing this could be using below Dockerfile.

Run this Dockerfile with docker build -t elasticsearch-custom:latest .

FROM elasticsearch:5.5.1 AS esbuilder
ADD script.sh path/to/insert/script.sh
RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install procps -y \
    && apt-get install httping -y \
    && /docker-entrypoint.sh elasticsearch -d -E path.data=/tmp/data \
    && while ! httping -qc1 http://localhost:9200 ; do sleep 1 ; done \
    && path/to/insert/script.sh \
    && apt-get clean

FROM elasticsearch:5.5.1
COPY --from=esbuilder /tmp/data/ /usr/share/elasticsearch/data/

And then just run docker run -t -d elasticsearch-custom:latest