Elasticsearch runs on Linux/macOS X/Windows and its only requirement is to have Java 8.x installed. Usually, I recommend using the Oracle JDK, which is available at https://github.com/aparo/elasticsearch-7.x-cookbook.
If you don't want to go into the details of installing and configuring your Elasticsearch instance, for a quick start, you can skip to the Setting up a node via Docker recipe at the end of this chapter and fire up Docker Compose, which will install an Elasticsearch instance with Kibana and other tools quickly.
