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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Elasticsearch as Service

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Santhosh Kumar

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Issue

  • How to deploy Elasticsearch as a service in Linux.

Environment

  • Elasticsearch 7.*

Prerequisites

  • Need Root user level.

Resolution

  1. Create elasticsearch.service file as root user in /usr/lib/systemd/system/
  2. Paste the below content in elasticsearch.service file

[Unit]

Description = Elasticsearch 7.17.9 Community Edition


[Service]

User=liferay

Environment=ES_JAVA_HOME=/home/liferay/zulu11.62.17-ca-jdk11.0.18-linux_x64

Environment='ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx4g -Xms4g'

ExecStart=/home/liferay/elasticsearch-7.17.9/bin/elasticsearch

Type=simple


[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

 

3. Run the below commands one by one to enable Elasticsearch as a service

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable elasticsearch 
systemctl start elasticsearch

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