Cannot run old elasticsearch on m1 chip (with rosetta2)

Question

My current project requires me to use elasticsearch:2.4.6-alpine docker image. The container seems running correctly and I am able to go inside the container using CLI. But when curl http://localhost:9200 executed it says:

curl: (52) Empty reply from server

Tried the same curl command from inside the container and it says:

curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9200: Connection refused

The elasticsearch service seems not exists when I use rc-status list from inside the container. Anyone have any idea?

Do you get any solution for your above problem? I'm facing the same one. — Waqas Afzal, Jun 03 '22 at 05:05
Alas the only real solution is to get a proper computer not a Fisher Price one. I've been on one of these Fisher Price M1s for about 6 months now and I'm finally giving up and going back to Windows. Much cheaper, much faster, much more reliable. I hate Apple computer with a passion. — satnhak, Nov 10 '22 at 13:33

Under-qualified NASA Intern · Answer 1 · 2022-01-23T23:50:53.207

It looks like support for M1 was only added in elasticsearch 7.12.0. Use that version or anything newer.

image: elasticsearch:7.16.3

Some say it works better when pulling the image file from elastic directly, not via dockerhub.

image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.16.3

More discussion: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arm-docker-image/268588

Legacy elasticsearch (v2)

any help here is appreciated :)

I am still looking for any way to run legacy elasticsearch (version 2) on a M1 mac via Rosetta. So far, no luck.

Update: elasticsearch V2 doesn't work because of a known bug in Docker's qemu translation from x64 to arm. Workarounds maybe possible (at least for v6+)

Well... the QEMU emulation is frankly not ideal and there are no guarantees there. If you need to run ES 6.x on Apple silicon the best option is probably to use a proper aarch64 JDK and use the tarball distribution. Still no guarantees here as this isn't a supported configuration. Source: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/69767

Were you able to make any progress with getting ES v2 to work? (I'm stuck with trying to use v1.7) — Christian, Aug 20 '22 at 00:12
No progress. On Apple Silicon, It looks like running anything before v7.12.0 will not be possible using Docker (maybe you could build from source... but maybe not). — Under-qualified NASA Intern, Aug 25 '22 at 18:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 30 '23 at 12:44

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I found the solution was to rebuild the elastic search image on your M1 Mac. Just search the source code for particular version on GitHub and build the docker image.

edited Apr 30 '23 at 12:44

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Cannot run old elasticsearch on m1 chip (with rosetta2)

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Legacy elasticsearch (v2)