Installing Kibana on Alpine Linux

Kibana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform designed to work with Elasticsearch. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Kibana on Alpine Linux.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• A Linux machine running Alpine Linux Latest.
• Access to the root user or a user with sudo privileges.
• Java 8 or higher installed on your machine.

Step 1: Update the System

Before we start, we need to update our system to ensure we have the latest packages:

$ sudo apk update
$ sudo apk upgrade

Step 2: Install Kibana

We will use the Elastic package repository to install Kibana on Alpine Linux. Follow these steps:

1. Download and install the Elastic GPG key:

$ sudo wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo tee /etc/apk/keys/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch

2. Add the Elastic package repository to the Alpine package manager:

$ echo "https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/yum" | sudo tee -a /etc/apk/repositories

3. Install Kibana:

$ sudo apk add kibana

After the installation completes successfully, Kibana service will start automatically.

Step 3: Configure Kibana

Now, let's configure Kibana by updating the configuration file /etc/kibana/kibana.yml:

$ sudo nano /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

Set the following properties:

server.port: 5601
server.host: "0.0.0.0"
elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]

Save and close the file by pressing CTRL+X, then Y, then ENTER.

Step 4: Start Kibana

We can now start Kibana:

$ sudo service kibana start

To verify that Kibana is running, you can open a web browser and go to http://your-server-ip:5601/.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have learned how to install and configure Kibana on Alpine Linux. Now, you can use Kibana to visualize and analyze data from Elasticsearch.

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