Elasticsearch fails to start on AWS kubernetes cluster - elasticsearch

Question

I am running my kubernetes cluster on AWS EKS which runs kubernetes 1.10.
I am following this guide to deploy elasticsearch in my Cluster
elasticsearch Kubernetes
The first time I deployed it everything worked fine. Now, When I redeploy it gives me the following error.
ERROR: [2] bootstrap checks failed
[1]: max file descriptors [4096] for elasticsearch process is too low, increase to at least [65536]
[2018-08-24T18:07:28,448][INFO ][o.e.n.Node ] [es-master-6987757898-5pzz9] stopping ...
[2018-08-24T18:07:28,534][INFO ][o.e.n.Node ] [es-master-6987757898-5pzz9] stopped
[2018-08-24T18:07:28,534][INFO ][o.e.n.Node ] [es-master-6987757898-5pzz9] closing ...
[2018-08-24T18:07:28,555][INFO ][o.e.n.Node ] [es-master-6987757898-5pzz9] closed
Here is my deployment file.
apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: es-master
labels:
component: elasticsearch
role: master
spec:
replicas: 3
template:
metadata:
labels:
component: elasticsearch
role: master
spec:
initContainers:
- name: init-sysctl
image: busybox:1.27.2
command:
- sysctl
- -w
- vm.max_map_count=262144
securityContext:
privileged: true
containers:
- name: es-master
image: quay.io/pires/docker-elasticsearch-kubernetes:6.3.2
env:
- name: NAMESPACE
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: metadata.namespace
- name: NODE_NAME
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: metadata.name
- name: CLUSTER_NAME
value: myesdb
- name: NUMBER_OF_MASTERS
value: "2"
- name: NODE_MASTER
value: "true"
- name: NODE_INGEST
value: "false"
- name: NODE_DATA
value: "false"
- name: HTTP_ENABLE
value: "false"
- name: ES_JAVA_OPTS
value: -Xms512m -Xmx512m
- name: NETWORK_HOST
value: "0.0.0.0"
- name: PROCESSORS
valueFrom:
resourceFieldRef:
resource: limits.cpu
resources:
requests:
cpu: 0.25
limits:
cpu: 1
ports:
- containerPort: 9300
name: transport
livenessProbe:
tcpSocket:
port: transport
initialDelaySeconds: 20
periodSeconds: 10
volumeMounts:
- name: storage
mountPath: /data
volumes:
- emptyDir:
medium: ""
name: "storage"
I have seen a lot of posts talking about increasing the value but I am not sure how to do it. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Just want to append to this issue:
If you create EKS cluster by eksctl then you can append to NodeGroup creation yaml:
preBootstrapCommand:
- "sed -i -e 's/1024:4096/65536:65536/g' /etc/sysconfig/docker"
- "systemctl restart docker"
This will solve the problem for newly created cluster by fixing docker daemon config.

Answer 2

Update default-ulimit parameter in the file '/etc/docker/daemon.json'
"default-ulimits": {
"nofile": {
"Name": "nofile",
"Soft": 65536,
"Hard": 65536
}
}
and restart docker daemon.

Answer 3

This is the only thing that worked for me using EKS setting up an EFK stack. Add this to your nodegroup creation YAML file under nodeGroups:. Then create your nodegroup and apply your ES pods on it.
preBootstrapCommands:
- "sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144"
- "systemctl restart docker"