How to run ElasticSearch v6 on M1 (ARM) inside Docker?
ElasticSearch v6 doesn't have ARM support and is not built for ARM
You can install ElasticSearch on ARM image and change the JDK to be JDK that support ARM
FROM ubuntu:bionic-20220531
# Must be root to install the packages
USER root
# Install required deps
RUN apt update
RUN apt -y install gnupg ca-certificates wget apt-transport-https coreutils java-common
# Import Elasticsearch GPG Key
RUN wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | apt-key add -
# Add Elasticsearch 6.x APT repository
# setting CPU architecture to be amd64 explicity as in case this is being built from ARM (which it should) it would find the elasticsearch package (elasticsearch 6.x doesn't have ARM binary)
RUN echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt stable main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-6.x.list
# update after elastic-search repo added
RUN apt-get update
# Install ARM Amazon JDK
RUN wget https://corretto.aws/downloads/latest/amazon-corretto-8-aarch64-linux-jdk.deb -O amazon-jdk.deb
RUN dpkg --skip-same-version -i amazon-jdk.deb
RUN rm amazon-jdk.deb
# Install Elasticsearch 6.x
RUN apt-get -y install elasticsearch
# the user was created when installed the elasticsearch
# Must not be root:
# org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root
USER elasticsearch
WORKDIR /usr/share/elasticsearch
# Append the custom conf
RUN echo "# ---------------------------------- CUSTOM -----------------------------------" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
RUN echo "" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
RUN echo "# Added because of the following error (TL;DR: X-Pack features are not supported in ARM):" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
RUN echo "# > org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException:" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
RUN echo "# > ElasticsearchException[X-Pack is not supported and Machine Learning is not available for [linux-aarch64];" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
RUN echo "# > you can use the other X-Pack features (unsupported) by setting xpack.ml.enabled: false in elasticsearch.yml]" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
RUN echo "xpack.ml.enabled: false" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
RUN echo "" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
RUN echo "# Added because we want to listen to requests coming from computers in the network" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
RUN echo "network.host: 0.0.0.0" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
ENTRYPOINT [ "./bin/elasticsearch" ]