Going from nothing to a functional Elasticsearch setup requires the software to be installed; this can be done in several ways and on different platforms. Some of these installation options are as follows:
- Installing from the source
- Installing deb for Debian-based Linux Distributions
- Installing rpm for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, sound library for embedded systems (SLES), OpenSLES, and RPM-based distributions
- Installing msi for Windows
- Deploying Docker images
For this setup, we will be using the RPM repository for consistency across versions, and for simplification purposes when updates are available.