diff --git a/docker-compose-search.yml b/docker-compose-search.yml
index 7ff3fc852de..754f89f10cf 100644
--- a/docker-compose-search.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-search.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ services:
     image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:6.3.2
     environment:
       - discovery.type=single-node
+      - node.name=search
+      - cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled=false
+      - cluster.info.update.interval=30m
       - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
     volumes:
       - search_data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data