Troubles using the docker image > SERVER_HOST environment var about kibana-docker

[jarpy]

The answer here is to think about what localhost means in a container context. Within the Kibana container, localhost is the Kibana container. So if you set SERVER_HOST to localhost, you can only access Kibana over the (virtual) loopback interface from inside the container itself (probably not what anybody wants).

That's why we default SERVER_HOST to "0" so you don't need to set it at all. Because of this, very little configuration is needed, and this docker-compose.yml, for example, works as expected:

---
version: '3'
services:
  elasticsearch:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:5.1.1
    networks: ['stack']

  kibana:
    image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:5.1.1
    ports: ['5601:5601']
    networks: ['stack']

networks: {stack: {}}