Install Elasticsearch 5.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

Steps to install Elastic 5.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

Prerequisite

Elastic 5.0 will require java version 1.8.0_73 you can use either oracle JDK or OpenJDK, run this to install OpenJDK version

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless

Additionally, you may need to install / upgrade apt-transport-https just to be sure, run this to do that

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

Install ElasticSearch

first of all you need to download elastic key

wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -

and then save repository definition to elastic 5.0 stable version

echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/5.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-5.x.list

then continue to install elasticsearch

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch

Test Installation

Now you can start elasticsearch using

sudo service elasticsearch start

and test it using

sudo service elasticsearch status

the result would be like this if the elasticsearch server is successfully run

test@testELK:~$ sudo service elasticsearch status
● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2016-10-30 10:32:45 WIB; 5s ago
Docs: http://www.elastic.co
Process: 5116 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 5119 (java)
Tasks: 15
Memory: 2.1G
CPU: 5.107s
CGroup: /system.slice/elasticsearch.service
└─5119 /usr/bin/java -Xms2g -Xmx2g -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiat

Other way to test it is by hitting the elasticsearch address, if succeed then elasticsearch will return the node information

test@testELK:~$curl localhost:9200
{
"name" : "45URyFc",
"cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
"cluster_uuid" : "nBsuqyqDRpW_-ECpY3hk8w",
"version" : {
"number" : "5.0.0",
"build_hash" : "253032b",
"build_date" : "2016-10-26T05:11:34.737Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "6.2.0"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}