But the idea is that you put the very same docker image to production. I guess most products come with an automated way to setup docker, including a decently secure setup (in this case).
And this is the same software that behaves perfectly reasonably when installed as a package directly on a Linux box; it's just when it thinks it's being used over the network because I'm running macOS and it needs to be in a Linux sandbox, that it starts acting all aggressive.
At least give me a flag to let me explicitly tell the software to relax!
There is such a flag for your use case[1]. Start the node in the Docker container with
discovery.type: single-node
I hope that helps!
Disclaimer: I work at Elastic; I welcome any and all feedback
[1]: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/...