Running Elastic Search with Laradock - laravel

Question

I'm trying to get ElasticSearch running with Laradock. ES looks to be supported out of the box with Laradock.
Here's my docker command (run from <project root>/laradock/:
docker-compose up -d nginx postgres redis beanstalkd elasticsearch
However if I run docker ps, the elasticsearch container isn't running.
Both ports 9200 and 9300 are not consumed:
lsof -i :9200
Not sure why the elasticsearch container doesn't persist, it seems to just self close.
output of docker ps -a after running docker-compose up ...
http://pastebin.com/raw/ymfvLPLT
Condensed version:
IMAGE STATUS PORTS
laradock_nginx Up 36 seconds 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp
laradock_elasticsearch Exited (137) 34 seconds ago
laradock_beanstalkd Up 37 seconds 0.0.0.0:11300->11300/tcp
laradock_php-fpm Up 38 seconds 9000/tcp
laradock_workspace Up 39 seconds 0.0.0.0:2222->22/tcp
tianon/true Excited (0) 41 seconds ago
laradock_postgres Up 41 seconds 0.0.0.0:5432->5432/tcp
laradock_redis Up 40 seconds 0.0.0.0:6379->6379/tcp
Output of docker events after running docker-compose up ...
http://pastebin.com/cE9bjs6i

Answer 1

Try to check logs first:
docker logs laradock_elasticsearch_1
(or another name of elasticsearch container)
In my case it was
ERROR: [1] bootstrap checks failed
[1]: max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144]
I found solution here
namely, i've run on my Ubuntu machine
sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

Answer 2

I don't think the problem is related to Laradock, since Elasticsearch is supposed to be running on it's own, I would first check the memory:
open Docker Dashboard -> Settings -> Resources -> Advanced: and increase the memory.
check your Machine memory, Elasticsearch won't run if there is not enough memory in your machine.
or:
open your docker-compose.yml file
increase the mem_limit: 1g then
docker-compose up -d --build elasticsearch
If it's still not working, remove all the images, update laradock to latest version and setup it new.