diff --git a/elasticsearch/README.md b/elasticsearch/README.md
index b6aad769..01c404db 100755
--- a/elasticsearch/README.md
+++ b/elasticsearch/README.md
@@ -181,7 +181,8 @@ To simplify all that, this image provides a `TYPE` variable to let you amongst t
 * `MASTER` : master-eligible, but holds no data. It is good to have three or more of these in a
 large cluster
 * `DATA` (or `NON_MASTER`) : holds data and serves search/index requests. Scale these out for elastic-y goodness.
-* `GATEWAY` : only operates as a client node or a "smart router". These are the ones whose HTTP port 9200 will need to be exposed
+* `GATEWAY` (or `COORDINATING`) : only operates as a client node or a "smart router". These are the ones whose HTTP port 9200 will need to be exposed
+* `INGEST` : operates only as an ingest node and is not master or data eligble
 
 A [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/overview/) file will serve as a good example of these three node types:
 
diff --git a/elasticsearch/docker-compose.yml b/elasticsearch/docker-compose.yml
index e847b7eb..09b01ea7 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/elasticsearch/docker-compose.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ services:
     environment:
       TYPE: GATEWAY
       UNICAST_HOSTS: master
+  ingest:
+    image: itzg/elasticsearch
+    ports:
+      - "9222:9200"
+    environment:
+      TYPE: INGEST
+      UNICAST_HOSTS: master
   kibana:
     image: kibana
     ports:
diff --git a/elasticsearch/start b/elasticsearch/start
index 61e94ccf..7612c084 100755
--- a/elasticsearch/start
+++ b/elasticsearch/start
@@ -77,15 +77,19 @@ setup_personality() {
   if [ -n "$TYPE" ]; then
     case $TYPE in
       MASTER)
-        OPTS="$OPTS -E node.master=true -E node.data=false"
+        OPTS="$OPTS -E node.master=true -E node.data=false -E node.ingest=false"
         ;;
 
-      GATEWAY)
-        OPTS="$OPTS -E node.master=false -E node.data=false"
+      GATEWAY|COORDINATING)
+        OPTS="$OPTS -E node.master=false -E node.data=false -E node.ingest=false"
+        ;;
+
+      INGEST)
+        OPTS="$OPTS -E node.master=false -E node.data=false -E node.ingest=true"
         ;;
 
       DATA|NON_MASTER)
-        OPTS="$OPTS -E node.master=false -E node.data=true"
+        OPTS="$OPTS -E node.master=false -E node.data=true -E node.ingest=false"
         ;;
 
       *)