This tutorial will help you setup a single node Elasticsearch cluster with Kibana using Docker Compose. Pre-requisites Install Docker (refer to official docs if not installed https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/) Install Docker Compose (refer to official docs if not installed https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/) This tutorial assumes you are comfortable with Docker and Docker Compose. If you are not, you can go through this article of mine which is kind of a crash course with Docker Compose (https://medium.

This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with Elasticsearch and Kibana and have some understanding of Docker. Before diving into the objective of this article, I would like to provide a brief introduction about X-Pack and go over some of the latest changes in Elasticsearch version 6.8 which allow us to use the security features of X-Pack for free with the basic license. X-Pack Security and Elasticsearch 6.8 X-Pack is a set of features that extend the Elastic Stack, that is Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and Beats.