Running Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch does not start automatically after installation. On Windows, to start it automatically at boot time, you can install Elasticsearch as a service. On Ubuntu, it's best to use the Debian package, which installs everything you need to configure Elasticsearch as a service. If you're interested, please refer to the official website (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/deb.html).

Basic Elasticsearch configuration

Elasticsearch 7.0 has several configuration files located in the config directory, shown as follows. Basically, it provides good defaults, and it requires very little configuration from developers:

ls config

The output will be similar to the following...